August 11, 2014 / Fortune Asia / Volume 170 / Number 2

18 Citizenship for Sale
Whether you’re a skilled technology worker or a poor laborer, it’s getting harder to become a U.S. citizen. But for those with $500,000 to buy their way in, it’s a different matter. That’s just the beginning of the problem.
By Peter Elkind with Marty Jones

30 LinkedIn’s Networker in Chief
CEO Jeff Weiner has mastered the art of advancement. Here’s what you can learn from him about managing your career.
By Adam Lashinsky

36 Can Big Data Cure Cancer?
A tale of two twentysomething entrepreneurs, a mountain of money from Google, and one of the oldest, most vexing problems of all time.
By Miguel Helft

44 Ford’s Epic Gamble: The Inside Story
How the company took a chance on building its crown jewel-the F-series truck-out of aluminum.
By Alex Taylor III

52 How MasterCard Became a Tech Company
Four years after taking the helm, CEO Ajay Banga has turned the payments processor into an innovator. The stock’s response? Priceless.
By Daniel Roberts

56 Is T.J. Maxx the Best Retail Store in the Land?
The off-price chain has built a fantastically loyal following. So have sister stores Marshalls, HomeGoods, and others. How have they done it? We got inside the playbook of parent company TJX. The secrets are out of the bag.
By Beth Kowitt

4 MACRO
Closer Look
Health-conscious Americans have turned away from ice cream in favor of frozen yogurt. Don’t count on the trend to last.
By Anne VanderMey

7 MACRO
Briefing
Why extremist group ISIS is the world’s most frightening ”startup.”
By Vivienne Walt

7 MACRO
Briefing
Workers are generating more value per hour but aren’t recouping that productivity in wages.
By Robert Hackett

8 MACRO
World’s Greatest Leaders
Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard J. Tyson.
Interview by Geoff Colvin

11 VENTURE
How I Got Started
Tumi bags began with a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru.
Interview by Dinah Eng

14 INVEST
Strategy
Should you follow an activist into a stock?
By Lauren Silva Laughlin

64 BING!
INSIGHTS

16 Allan Sloan
How to stop companies from deserting America before it’s too late.

17 Nina Easton
As foreign aid dries up, companies take the lead in global development.

CORRECTION

”The $4.3 Trillion Force” (July 21) identified the hedge fund run by BlackRock co-founder Keith Anderson as Anderson Micro. In fact, the hedge fund’s name is Anderson Macro.

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18 Critics of the EB-5 visa program say it makes it easy for developers like Anshoo Sethi, in cream suit above, to take advantage of investors.
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