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◆Extending His Reach
Russell Flannery
Taiwan's Tsai Eng-Meng turned his rice crackeres into a multibillion-dollar fortune. Selling juice won't be so easy.

The Richest People In America
Edited by Matthew Miller and Duncan Greenberg
America's richest get poorer for the fifth time in 27 years.

After the Fall
Keren Blankfeld and Matthew Miller
Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicholas faces up to 360 years in jail on charges of backdating options and distributing illegal drugs.

Cancer Man
Matthew Herper
Patrick Soon-Shiong and one of cancer's biggest riddles.

American Telecom Tycoon Bets on the Philippines
Tatiana Serafin
Ken Tuchman, a former member of the 400, looks to up his call-center bet in the Philippines.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Never Mix, Never Worry
Jan McCallum
Buying up wineries and turning Foster's into a global player seemed like a good idea at the time. Now the Australian brewer is sobering up.

PRC at 60
Zhou Jiangong
China faces an enormous demographic transformation.

The Akamai of the East
Andy Greenberg
ChinaCache cuts through its country's increasingly clogged cyberspace.

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◆Entrepreneurs

Intelligent Design
Donald Frazier
A Hong Kong startup aims to save lives, either with cigarette filters or face masks to fight flu.

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◆Technology

Marathon Man
Naazneen Karmali
Tata Consultancy Services' new boss will need his stamina.

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◆America's Most Promising Companies

Breakpoint
Maureen Farrell
Vextec can predict with scary accuracy how and when products will fail--before they're made.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Wandering Eye
Tim Kelly
Having stirred things up in Japan, discount-travel pioneer Hideo Sawada goes abroad.