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# September 28, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 12 September 28, 2015 |  

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September 28th, 2015 | Vol. 186, No. 12 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific

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September 28, 2015

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

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentIdeasSportsU.S.WorldOthers

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of

The anonymous Italian author is becoming an icon

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _Everest’s_ Peak Experience Underrates the Mountain

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the new film 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Tennis Balls and Trash Give Pablo Picasso Another Dimension

The master’s sculptures arrive at MoMA

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _Holmes_ Is Where the Heart Is

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases <em>Mycroft Holmes</em>

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Labour's New Leader Shakes U.K. Politics

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### What the 2016 Candidates Are Selling on Their Websites

As the witty merch goes, so goes the nation

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Multicultural New Zealand Has Melded Spirit And Skill To Create The Perfect Rugby Squad

### U.S.

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### Meet the Doctors Fighting to Grant Patients the Right to Die

Trained to preserve life, but seeking to allow some to end theirs on their own terms 

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### Why Colleges Need Helicopter Parents

Sometimes, backing off is not what a kid needs 

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Pope Francis and the New Roman Empire

From Cuba to climate change, he has revitalized the Vatican’s role in global diplomacy. Now he’s bringing his activist agenda to the U.S. 

[World](/section/world/)

### Failed State

Chaos in Libya has created a dangerous highway for migrants

[World](/section/world/)

### The Ultimate Air Purifier

Designer Daan Roosegaarde's "smog vacuum cleaner" aims to reduce Rotterdam's growing air pollution.

[World](/section/world/)

### Chilled

[World](/section/world/)

### The Migrant Crisis Is a Major Test for European Identity — and Unity

[World](/section/world/)

### Global Warming's Comeback

It may not have always felt like it, but global warming slowed in the decade before 2010\. Temperatures rose just 0.09°F, down from 0.2°F average growth in each of the six previous decades. Now a new study by the U.K's Met Office says the "hiatus" has ended and predicts the next two years will be the hottest on record.

[World](/section/world/)

### Assessing the Pope at High Altitude

[World](/section/world/)

### Australia's Game of Thrones

[World](/section/world/)

### Great 20th Century Migrations

With an estimated 1 in every 122 people on earth now displaced according to the U.N., there are currently more people fleeing violence or persecution than at any other time since World War II. Here's how the world dealt with previous mass movements of people.

[World](/section/world/)

### Good Leaders Don't Have to Be 'Good'

[World](/section/world/)

### The Syrian Refugee Who Wants to Swim to Salvation in Europe

### Others

[11 Questions With Aberash BekeleThe subject of Angelina Jolie's new movie talks about her life as a child bride who killed her would-be husband](/4038102/11-questions-with-aberash-bekele/)


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