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# June 30, 2014 | Vol. 183 No. 25June 30, 2014 |  
Vol. 183 No. 25

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June 30th, 2014 | Vol. 183, No. 25 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific

Issue date

June 30, 2014

Location

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

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsScienceWorld

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Sting’s Shipyard Serenade

After a decade devoid of new songs, Sting writes a musical about his youth

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Chart Attack: Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith

Two soulful Brit crooners on the rise

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### All About Yves.

Two biopics of the great French designer approach the runway

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Pop Chart (19 Jun 2014)

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### The Changing Lives of Teens

Kids have cut some risky behaviors--and picked up others

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Not Doing My Business

I found out what actually happens at most hotels' abandoned business centers

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Joe Manchin: The Outlier

The West Virginia Senator went to D.C. to get stuff done. Oh well

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### Twilight of the Hunter

Struggling with extreme poverty, a community of Inuit in northern Canada fights for survival — by hunting threatened polar bears

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The End of Iraq

The sudden military victories of a Sunni militant group threaten to touch off a maelstrom in the Middle East

[World](/section/world/)

### Carbon Rules Show Bad Arithmetic

Why the numbers in the President's Clean Power Plan don't add up

[World](/section/world/)

### The Middle East's Unlikely Alliances

Here's a breakdown of who is siding with whom as the success of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has led to new ties between former foes in the region

[World](/section/world/)

### Tibet’s Slow Burn

Ever greater numbers of Chinese value Tibet’s religion and culture. But their government still treats it as a subversive region to be subdued

[World](/section/world/)

### Harley Davidson Goes Electric

Will this battery-powered hog help the famed cyclemaker grow beyond aging boomers?

[World](/section/world/)

### 10 Questions with Saroo Brierley

At the age of 5, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train. A quarter-century later he found his way home, using the Internet

[World](/section/world/)

### Children at the Border

An exodus from Central America tests the U.S.

[World](/section/world/)

### The Net Flicks

Team Brazil fares better than it has in decades at the World Cup

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (19 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### World (19 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Conversation (20 Jun 2014)


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