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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 123 No. 12
Read the Cover StoryNATION
Mixing Politics With Prayer
A Moment of Silence?
Charting the Big Shift
Hart's New Legions
Distemper over Central America
Changing Sides
War on Poverty
Red-Handed?
Booming Busts
Little Rascals
Taking Cues from on High (The Presidency/Hugh Sidey)
WORLD
Clouds of Desperation
(THE GULF) Holy Terror (MIDDLE EAST)
Time for Talk
Machine Guns in Paradise (CARIBBEAN)
Let Them Shoot Smack (ASIA)
Tossed Salad (WEST GERMANY)
Cross Words (POLAND)
SCIENCE
Puzzling Holes in the Forest
(Environment)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Sad News for the Happy Hour
(Medicine)
PRESS
Of Reputations and Reporters
SPORT
Spiraling Footballs and Economies
BUSINESS
Striking the Richest Deal
(Economy & Business)
Many Winners, Few Losers (Economy & Business)
Test Case (Economy & Business)
Nuclear Fallout (Economy & Business)
Of Windmills, Cattle and Form 1040 (Economy & Business)
New Woes for Coleco (Dividends / Dividends)
Flashy Wheels (Economy & Business)
Cutting Up a Coin (Dividends)
Plastic Goes Platinum (Dividends)
EDUCATION
Taking a Course in Go-Getting
LAW
When Justice Costs Millions
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Why He's a Thriller
(Show Business / COVER STORIES)
Michael Jackson's songs, steps and sexy aura set a flashy beat for the decade
"He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success" (Show Business)
Picasso: The Last Picture Show (Art)
Singing of Skunks and Saints (Books)
Victims (Books)
Editors' Choice (Books)
Best Sellers (Books / FICTION)
Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid (Cinema)
Looking for a Lost Generation (Music)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
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(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
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ESSAY
Whose Country Is It Anyway?

Shooting The Road: How to Find Hell on Earth
How a Little Town in Peru Is Becoming a Hotspot
Weekly Acoustic News: Thanksgiving Edition
The Road on Film: Beautiful, Bleak
Obama's First State Dinner
The Princess and the Frog: Big Fun on the Bayou
Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage
Sex, Please, We're British: London's Erotica Expo
Ahmadinejad in Brazil: Why Lula Defies the U.S.
Obama's Half Brother, a Kenyan American in China