diff --git a/recipes/foreignaffairs.recipe b/recipes/foreignaffairs.recipe
index 69511cbd09..c7fa21b3e9 100644
--- a/recipes/foreignaffairs.recipe
+++ b/recipes/foreignaffairs.recipe
@@ -3,10 +3,17 @@ import re
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
 
 class ForeignAffairsRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    ''' there are three modifications:
+    1) fetch issue cover
+    2) toggle ignore premium articles
+    3) extract proper section names, ie. "Comments", "Essay"
+
+    by Chen Wei weichen302@gmx.com, 2012-02-05'''
+
     __license__  = 'GPL v3'
     __author__ = 'kwetal'
     language = 'en'
-    version = 1
+    version = 1.01
 
     title = u'Foreign Affairs (Subcription or (free) Registration)'
     publisher = u'Council on Foreign Relations'
@@ -17,6 +24,9 @@ class ForeignAffairsRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
     remove_javascript = True
 
     INDEX = 'http://www.foreignaffairs.com'
+    FRONTPAGE = 'http://www.foreignaffairs.com/magazine'
+    INCLUDE_PREMIUM = False
+
 
     remove_tags = []
     remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'base'))
@@ -37,6 +47,12 @@ class ForeignAffairsRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
     temp_files = []
     articles_are_obfuscated = True
 
+    def get_cover_url(self):
+        soup = self.index_to_soup(self.FRONTPAGE)
+        div = soup.find('div', attrs={'class':'inthemag-issuebuy-cover'})
+        img_url =  div.find('img')['src']
+        return self.INDEX + img_url
+
     def get_obfuscated_article(self, url):
         br = self.get_browser()
         br.open(url)
@@ -50,57 +66,47 @@ class ForeignAffairsRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
         return self.temp_files[-1].name
 
+
     def parse_index(self):
-        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.foreignaffairs.com/magazine')
-        articles = []
         answer = []
-        content = soup.find('div', attrs = {'class': 'center-wrapper'})
-        if content:
-            for div in content.findAll('div', attrs = {'class': re.compile(r'view-row\s+views-row-[0-9]+\s+views-row-[odd|even].*')}):
-                tag = div.find('div', attrs = {'class': 'views-field-title'})
-                if tag:
-                    a = tag.find('a')
-                    if a:
-                        title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-                        url = self.INDEX + a['href']
-
-                        author = self.tag_to_string(div.find('div', attrs = {'class': 'views-field-field-article-display-authors-value'}))
-                        tag = div.find('span', attrs = {'class': 'views-field-field-article-summary-value'})
-                        # If they ever fix their markup, this will break :-(
-                        summary = self.tag_to_string(tag.findNextSibling('p'))
-                        description = author  + '<br/>' + summary
-
-                        articles.append({'title': title, 'date': None, 'url': url, 'description': description})
-                    else:
-                        continue
-                else:
-                    continue
-
-            answer.append(('Magazine', articles))
-
-            ul = content.find('ul')
-            if ul:
+        soup = self.index_to_soup(self.FRONTPAGE)
+        sec_start = soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class':'panel-separator'})
+        for sec in sec_start:
+            content = sec.nextSibling
+            if content:
+                section = self.tag_to_string(content.find('h2'))
                 articles = []
-                for li in ul.findAll('li'):
-                    tag = li.find('div', attrs = {'class': 'views-field-title'})
-                    if tag:
-                        a = tag.find('a')
-                        if a:
-                            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-                            url = self.INDEX + a['href']
-                            description = ''
-                            tag = li.find('div', attrs = {'class': 'views-field-field-article-display-authors-value'})
-                            if tag:
-                                description = self.tag_to_string(tag)
 
-                            articles.append({'title': title, 'date': None, 'url': url, 'description': description})
-                        else:
-                            continue
+                tags = []
+                for div in content.findAll('div', attrs = {'class': re.compile(r'view-row\s+views-row-[0-9]+\s+views-row-[odd|even].*')}):
+                    tags.append(div)
+                ul = content.find('ul')
+                for li in content.findAll('li'):
+                    tags.append(li)
+
+                for div in tags:
+                    title = url = description = author = None
+
+                    if self.INCLUDE_PREMIUM:
+                        found_premium = False
                     else:
-                        continue
-
-                answer.append(('Letters to the Editor', articles))
+                        found_premium = div.findAll('span', attrs={'class':
+                                                               'premium-icon'})
+                    if not found_premium:
+                        tag = div.find('div', attrs={'class': 'views-field-title'})
 
+                        if tag:
+                            a = tag.find('a')
+                            if a:
+                                title = self.tag_to_string(a)
+                                url = self.INDEX + a['href']
+                            author = self.tag_to_string(div.find('div', attrs = {'class': 'views-field-field-article-display-authors-value'}))
+                            tag_summary = div.find('span', attrs = {'class': 'views-field-field-article-summary-value'})
+                            description = self.tag_to_string(tag_summary)
+                            articles.append({'title':title, 'date':None, 'url':url,
+                                     'description':description, 'author':author})
+                if articles:
+                    answer.append((section, articles))
         return answer
 
     def preprocess_html(self, soup):