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Edition: South Pacific
November 2, 2009 No. 17

COVER
The End of California? Dream On! (United States)
By MICHAEL GRUNWALD
The Golden State has fought the status quo since its birth 160 years ago. It celebrates failure. It is a magnet for innovation. Its obituary has been posted time and again. But even amid a particularly rough chapter in the state's history, the nation's future is being written in California. A special report


ASIA
A Rivalry on the Roof of the World
By JYOTI THOTTAM / NEW DELHI
In the Himalayas, India and China are needling each other. Welcome to what may be the century's most important contest


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GLOBAL BUSINESS
Tower of Power (Energy)
By AUSTIN RAMZY
China is fast becoming one of the world's largest alternative-energy markets. But will foreign firms be welcomed?


ARTS
Mr. Vice Guy (Books)
By PICO IYER
Yakuza, sex, murder. Jake Adelstein's debut is not your typical expatriate memoir of Tokyo


PEOPLE
China's Literary Bad Boy (Profile)
By SIMON ELEGANT
Wildly popular novelist Han Han is the rebellious, potty-mouthed voice of a generation of disaffected Chinese youth. Why won't the authorities shut him up?

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