Table of Contents: August 7, 2006
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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?
Climatoon: An Animated Climate Change Chat
Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton
Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Hanukkah
Ask Your Questions: NBC Anchor Brian Williams
The Lovely Bones: Dead Girl's Love Story
Tiger Gets Mulligan from the TV Networks
Top 10 Disney Controversies
Obama Accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
Have a Very Ridiculous Christmas
Top 10 Performing Politicians