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# August 22, 2016 | Vol. 188 No. 7 August 22, 2016 |  

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August 22nd, 2016 | Vol. 188, No. 7 | U.S.

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthPoliticsWorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### How Airports Are Fixing Security Chaos

[Business](/section/business/)

### Review: 'No Man's Sky' Isn't What You Wanted. Thank God

No Man's Sky is not the game most people expected it to be. Why that's a very good thing

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Legends Live on In an Editor's Book

A review of Terry McDonell's <i>The Accidental Life</i>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Quick Talk with Chris Pine

Fresh off his turn as Captain Kirk in Star Trek Beyond, Pine, 35, stars in Hell or High Water, a neo-western heist drama in which two brothers steal from a chain of Texas banks to save their family ranch.

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Suicide Squad_ Asks Us to Choose: Evil or Extinction

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Pete's Dragon_ Soars Before It Stumbles

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Off-Key, but on Point

Meryl Streep shows the power of a middle-aged dreamer in Stephen Frears' Florence Foster Jenkins

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Untangling Alzheimer’s: Simple Lifestyle Changes May Prevent Cognitive Decline

When it comes to preventing cognitive decline, simple lifestyle changes are finally being borne out by science

[Health](/section/health/)

### Pandora's Baby: The New Science of Predicting Your Child

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside Donald Trump’s Meltdown

Donald Trump's sinking polls, unending attacks and public blunders have the GOP reconsidering its strategy for November

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### In the Latest Issue (11 Aug 2016)

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Amid Donald Trump's Stumbles, an America-First Rebellion That Is Just Beginning

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (11 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### A Girl Grows In Brooklyn

[World](/section/world/)

### A Beginner's Guide to Cupping

An ancient Chinese therapy is center stage this Olympics after a handful of American swimmers were spotted (literally) with dark, round marks on their bodies. Here's what to know about cupping.

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (11 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (11 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Cheap Michelin-Starred Eats

[World](/section/world/)

### Turkey and Russia Get Closer--and Worry the West

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (11 Aug 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Upside of 'Bad' Behavior

[World](/section/world/)

### Walmart's DIY Plan to Fight Petty Theft

[World](/section/world/)

### Japan's Emperor Hints at an Early Exit

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (11 Aug 2016)

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