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# September 12, 2016 | Vol. 188 No. 10 & 11September 12, 2016 |  

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Vol. 188 No. 10 & 11

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September 12th, 2016 | Vol. 188, No. 10 & 11 | U.S.

Issue date

September 12, 2016

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U.S.

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsScienceU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Why Self-Driving Trucks May Be the Next Big Thing on the Road

[Business](/section/business/)

### Apple's $14.5 Billion Tax Spat Signals a World of Uncertainty for Big Corporations

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Gene Wilder

Comic Actor of Pure Imagination

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Foer's Family Drama

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Keys In the Song of Life

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Tales of a Kids'-Lit Power Couple

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### In the Latest Issue (1 Sep 2016)

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### I Now Have Scientific Proof of How Awesome I Really Am

And you can too

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### EpiPen Scandal Is Yet Another Sign of Coming Pharma Crisis

Valeant, Turing, Theranos and Mylan show the fallout of epic greed. The victim? American consumers

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### 'Racist' Technology Is a Bug—Not a Crime

Why do we consider it our jobs to say that mistakes indicate 'racism'?

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Vicente Fox: Donald Trump Is Like a 'Street Fighter'

In the midst of his ongoing Twitter battle with Trump, the former President of Mexico spoke to TIME

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Don't Believe the New Myths About America's White Working Class

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The New Politics of Gun Control

Democrats are finally leaning in, while Republicans talk compromise

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How Peace-Finally-Came to Reign Throughout the Western Hemisphere

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### A Candidate In Utah Blazes a Trail Just by Being Herself

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### Not-So-Close Encounters

A mysterious blip of energy seemingly from deep space was detected by a Russian radio telescope, leading some to suspect alien contact. But abnormal signals have been misinterpreted before.

### U.S.

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

### A Safer Sandy Hook School

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Putting the Camera Aside

[World](/section/world/)

### Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Smugglers are putting refugees on rafts that have virtually no chance of completing the dangerous Mediterranean crossing--turning every rescue into a life-or-death mission to save hundreds of migrants

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (1 Sep 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### A Looming Power Vacuum Threatens Uzbekistan

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (1 Sep 2016)

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week's most talked-about studies:

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (1 Sep 2016)

### Others

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