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# October 2, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 13October 2, 2017 |  

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Vol. 190 No. 13

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October 2nd, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 13 | U.S.

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October 2, 2017

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Can the New Nissan Leaf Transform Electric-Vehicle Market?

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### In a Quantum Leap, _Star Trek_ Becomes a Female Enterprise

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Network TV's Calorie-Free Take on American Patriotism

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Battle of the Sexes_ Serves Up a Winning Portrait of Billie Jean King

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Return of the _Kingsman_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Allow Darren Aronofsky to Explain _mother!_

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Genetic Testing Is Providing New Hope for Babies Born with Mysterious Ailments

Newborns with maladies doctors can't explain face bleak odds. Now genetic testing is providing answers--and hope

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### TIME's Second Century

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Emotion, the Great Manipulator

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Review: Grace and Gumption in Alice McDermott's _The Ninth Hour_

The author's new novel takes place in Irish Catholic Brooklyn in the early 20th century

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### What I Learned About Leadership from Leading Leaders

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Divided Democratic Party Debates Its Future as 2020 Looms

A divided party debates its future

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Trump Gives the U.N. His Vision of a World Governed by Self-Interest

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Republicans Launch a Last-Ditch Effort to Repeal Obamacare

### U.S.

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

### Bonnie Angelo

Trailblazing journalist

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

### Shots Fired

A growing surveillance network aims to fight crime by tracking gunshots

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Will the Rohingya Exodus Be Aung San Suu Kyi's Fall From Grace?

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was long hailed as the hero of human rights in her homeland. But the forced exodus of nearly half a million minority Rohingya has changed that

[World](/section/world/)

### How China Could Turn Water Into a Weapon

[World](/section/world/)

### Hamas Takes a Step Away from Isolation

[World](/section/world/)

### Stanislav Petrov, the Russian Officer Who Averted a Nuclear War, Feared History Repeating Itself

“The slightest false move can lead to colossal consequences,” the late officer told TIME in 2015\. “That hasn’t changed.”

[World](/section/world/)

### China's 'Mountain' Skyscrapers

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (21 Sep 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (21 Sep 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (21 Sep 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (21 Sep 2017)

### Others

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