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# January 15, 2018 | Vol. 191 No. 1January 15, 2018 |  
Vol. 191 No. 1

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Issue name

January 15th, 2018 | Vol. 191, No. 1 | U.S.

Issue date

January 15, 2018

Location

U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific

Related categories

[World](/vault/subject/world/)

[Society](/vault/subject/society/)

[Politics](/vault/subject/politics/)

[Science](/vault/subject/science/)

[North America](/vault/subject/north-america/)

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## Table of Contents

HealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Meet the Doctor Who Runs India's Last Polio Ward

St. Stephen's Hospital in New Delhi

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Bill Gates: Why I Decided To Edit an Issue of TIME

Gates is TIME's first guest editor in its 94-year history

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Warren Buffett Shares the Secrets to Wealth in America

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### What a Work of Art Can Teach Us About Dishonest Portrayals of Immigrants

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Mock Millennials All You Want. Here's Why They Give Me Hope

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Girls Can Change the World—But We Have to Invest in Them First

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why This Scientist Is Hopeful A Cure to Alzheimer’s Disease Isn’t Far Off

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How One Teacher Is Revolutionizing the Way Her Students Learn

Washington State 2017 teacher of the Year

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Thousands of African Women Face Sexual Violence. Meet the Surgeon Who Is Helping Them Rebuild Their Lives

Panzi Hospital

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Why We Refuse to See the Bright Side, Even Though We Should

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### This Ethiopian Scientist Is Saving Lives by Studying Insects

ICIPE In Nairobi

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why It’s Time For Men to Step Up For Women Too

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Ava DuVernay on What Gives Her Hope

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### This Ebola Survivor Is Fighting to Protect Others From the Deadly Disease

EBOLA SURVIVOR/DISEASE FIGHTER

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why Getting Into Trouble is Necessary to Make Change

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### This Designer Wants to Prove the World Isn’t as Divided as We Think

Gapminder Foundation/Dollar Street

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### This Is What the Future of Food Looks Like, According to Chef Marcus Samuelsson

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Melinda Gates: It's Time for a New Era for Women

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### One Hope for the New Year: A Kinder Culture

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Dan Harris: How Meditation Helps Me Survive This Era of Angry Politics

### U.S.

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

### Women Are Getting Male Harassers’ Jobs. But Don’t Call it a Coup

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Iran Protests Expose a Deep Fault Line in the Islamic Republic

[World](/section/world/)

### Who's Who In Italy's Upcoming Elections

[World](/section/world/)

### Iceland Makes Equal Pay the Law

### Others

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January 15th, 2018 | Vol. 191, No. 1 | U.S.

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