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# January 25, 2016 | Vol. 187 No. 2 January 25, 2016 |  

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Vol. 187 No. 2

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Issue name

January 25th, 2016 | Vol. 187, No. 2 | U.S.

Issue date

January 25, 2016

Location

U.S.

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsWorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### 7 Questions With Klaus Schwab

The founder of the 40-year-old World Economic Forum in Davos says the digital revolution demands a different, and more human, kind of leadership

[Business](/section/business/)

### Automakers Want to Sell You Much More Than Just a Car

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### In Appreciation: David Bowie, 1947 to 2016

He was the rare artist who inspired not just adulation but imitation

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### In the Latest Issue (14 Jan 2016)

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _Billions_ Is a Wall Street Soap That's Bullish on Drama, Bearish on Insight

The Showtime drama debuts Jan. 17

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _War and Peace_ Is Tolstoy, Plus 21st Century Flair

The miniseries premieres Jan. 18

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Book Review: Two Roosevelts and a Firebrand

Inside <em>Let the People Rule</em> and <em>The Firebrand and the First Lady</em>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Golden Gremlins--Er, Globes

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Type-2 Diabetes and the Diet Prescription

A deceptively simple approach is showing promise

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why Don’t Teenagers Slow Dance Anymore?

If I had to suffer through ritual, so will the rest of teenage America

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### President Obama's Playground Grievances at the State of the Union

If the purpose of the speech was to reassure a jittery country, I’m not sure he succeeded

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Why Ted Cruz Has a Chance of Winning the Republican Nomination

He is positioning himself as the best option for the nation’s social conservatives

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### What Traders Don't Know About China Could Hurt Them

China’s foreign-trade volume declined in 2015

[World](/section/world/)

### The Zika Virus

[World](/section/world/)

### Germany's New Migrant Crisis Threatens Merkel

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (14 Jan 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Royal Pains In the Headlines

On Jan. 11 Princess Cristina of Spain became the first member of the country's royal family to go on trial, charged with two counts of tax fraud. Here are a few other royals caught up in very public troubles:

[World](/section/world/)

### The Ongoing California Natural-Gas Leak Is a Disaster for the Planet

[World](/section/world/)

### The Science of Why People 'Snap' In Anger

[World](/section/world/)

### Hot on the Trail

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (14 Jan 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Zero Footprint

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (14 Jan 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Verbatim (14 Jan 2016)

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