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# June 9, 2014 | Vol. 183 No. 22June 9, 2014 |  
Vol. 183 No. 22

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June 9th, 2014 | Vol. 183, No. 22 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific

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June 9, 2014

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Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasScienceWorld

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Behind the Scenes with John Green

The author of The Fault in Our Stars watches his book become a movie

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Divas for Every Demographic

A trio of new releases shows pop’s niche power

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Tolls for Trolls

All I ever wanted was to start a humor website. But the patent trolls won't let me

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### The Man Who Guards The Planet

Space is full of potential killer asteroids. Meet the astronomer who stands between you and them

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Has Assad Won?

Ensconced in a corner of Damascus, Bashar Assad is growing stronger, while Homs, the capital of the Syrian revolution, lies in ruins

[World](/section/world/)

### Europe’s Right Turn

Anti-E.U. populists may have scored big at the ballot box, but they’re wrong on foreign policy

[World](/section/world/)

### Don’t Forget Taiwan

Why the island’s citizens are worried about China’s growing influence over their home

[World](/section/world/)

### Tiananmen 25 Years Later

Amid a new wave of repression, china needs the spirit of 1989 as much as ever before

[World](/section/world/)

### 10 Questions with Margaret Lambert

On her 100th birthday, the high jumper got hundreds of postcards from Germans. Here’s why

[World](/section/world/)

### Czarship Enterprise


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