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# August 31, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 8 August 31, 2015 |  

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsScienceU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### New Gear Helps You Monitor Your Home

Even when you’re not there

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Hurricane Katrina and the Healing Power of Jazz

An excerpt from <em>The Wind in the Reeds</em>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: It’s Overcast Season at Beach House

The group is out with a new album, <em>Depression</em>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### ‘Escape Rooms’ Are Video Games Come to Life

The new pastime is like a Rubik’s cube that locks the door behind you

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### 10 Questions With Beverly Johnson

The veteran supermodel reflects on her career and on coming forward about Bill Cosby

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How to Age When Your Celebrity Peers Don't

In Hollywood, looking young forever is the ultimate prize. In real life, not so much 

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### It Takes Much More Than Money to Fix Broken Schools

Educators need much more support—socially, politically and financially

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Why Donald Trump Is Winning

Why Trump's latest hit show is driving the political elite crazy

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Hillary Clinton’s Stalled Bandwagon Exposes a Deeper Problem for Democrats

The email controversy continues

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### A Strange New Way to Solve Crimes

The bacteria growing in and on the human body is so unique—and so revealing—that scientists believe germs will soon help catch bad guys 

[Science](/section/science/)

### Modern Science Has a Publish-or-Perish Problem

Flaws are popping up in the peer review process

### U.S.

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

### Inside Preparations for the Pope’s Visit

The man who saved an archdiocese now prepares for the Pope's visit

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The China Decade

It’s been a rough summer for Beijing. But China is still poised to dominate—at least in the short term

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (20 Aug 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### Planetary Clones

[World](/section/world/)

### How Cities Save Water

[World](/section/world/)

### How China's Economic Turmoil Affects Your Investments

You aren't a currency trader. You don't play in Shanghai's boom-and-bust stock market. (It was only beginning to open to foreign investors when the crash hit.) But if you have some money in a 401(k) or an IRA, you have a stake in the news coming out of China, even if you hardly think of yourself as a global investor.

[World](/section/world/)

### The Jewels of Chinese 'Duplitecture'

China revealed an "oil bubble" statue in the northwest town of Karamay on Aug. 11 that is almost identical to Chicago's reflective, beanlike sculpture Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor. The Windy City's 2006 artwork is in good company; China has been creating knockoff monuments for years

[World](/section/world/)

### Why Brazil Is Turning Against Its President

[World](/section/world/)

### The Conservative Heart

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (20 Aug 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### Julian Bond

Civil rights leader

[World](/section/world/)

### Sky Ladder

[World](/section/world/)

### Verbatim (20 Aug 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (20 Aug 2015)

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