July 18, 2011 Vol. 178 No. 3 / Time Asia

4 | Inbox
BRIEFING

7 | Verbatim

8 | LightBox
Joplin's Fourth of July

10 | World
U.K. tabloid hacking

12 | United States
Mark Halperin on immigration reform

13 | Politics
Debt wrangling in D.C.

14 | Economy
Space-shuttle shuffle

16 | Milestones
Artist Cy Twombly

COMMENTARY
17 | Viewpoint
Adam Cohen on the Strauss-Kahn case

18 | Curious Capitalist
Rana Foroohar on why M.B.A.s are bad for business

20 | In the Arena
Joe Klein on rethinking Head Start

FEATURES
22 Sudan in Crisis
Why a two-state solution has yet to produce peace by Alex Perry and Alan Boswell

28 Seafood's Next Wave
After decades of overfishing, we're taking fish production to the farm. What that
means for our health and the planet's by Bryan Walsh

36 The Fans Go Wild
When readers write their own adventures for their favorite characters, is it
kidnapping or art? by Lev Grossman

BUSINESS
41 | Middle East
Decades of plundered wealth have been brought to light by the Arab Spring

44 | Brazil
The country's overvalued currency is a sign of serious economic imbalance

THE CULTURE
46 | Books
Jonathan Franzen, Edmund White and 21 other authors talk about their favorite
vacation reading

52 | Global Adviser
Tracing Abraham's epic wanderings; Malacca's hippest addresses; culinary
innovations with Thierry Marx

54 | Essay
Why China's economy may defy the doomsayers

56 | 10 Questions
Astronaut and shuttle veteran Story Musgrave

ON THE COVER: A sea bream born and bred in a Portsmouth, N.H., hatchery. Photograph
by James Wojcik for TIME. Styled by Brett Kurzweil. Fish courtesy Local Ocean