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Edition: South Pacific
Edition: South Pacific
No. 31
COVER
Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype
The debate is so politically loaded that it's tough to tell who's being straight about the real areas of progress and how breakthroughs can be achieved. TIME sorts it out
ASIA
Get Ahead, Learn Mandarin
(Cover Story)
China's economic rise means the world has a new second language—and it isn't English
BUSINESS
China's Hotel Boom
China is tipped to become the world's top tourist destination, and foreign hotel chains are rushing to cash in
NOTEBOOK
Research on Ice
New details of disgraced Korean geneticist Dr. Hwang Woo-suk's experiments emerge: cloned woolly mammoths, anyone?

Dr. Dre's Headphones: Chronically Good
Facebook: Movement or Business?
X Files Movie: For X-Philes Only
How Sudan Was Brought to Court
A Coming Shortage of Kosher Beef?
Getting Serious About Flood Insurance
Fast-Tracking Law School
Revisiting 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Should Genetic Tests Be Regulated?
Video on Demand