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# January 14, 2019 | Vol. 193 No. 1 January 14, 2019 |  

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Vol. 193 No. 1

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Issue name

January 14th, 2019 | Vol. 193, No. 1 | U.S.

Issue date

January 14, 2019

Location

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

Related categories

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

[Gender](/vault/subject/gender/)

[Generations](/vault/subject/generations/)

[Relationships](/vault/subject/relationships/)

[Family](/vault/subject/family/)

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

[Health &amp; Medicine](/vault/subject/health-medicine/)

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsScienceU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Defining an Oscar Movie Is Harder Than Ever. That Can Only Be a Good Thing

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### 'Sex Education' Is a Teen Sex Comedy with a Gen Z Twist

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Aliens and Cold War Paranoia Collide in _Project Blue Book_

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Vice_ Director Adam McKay on How to Laugh at Our Leaders Responsibly

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### An Experimental Procedure Could Help More Families Have Healthy Babies. But It’s Not Allowed in the U.S.

Mitochondrial replacement therapy is a promising innovation in fertility treatment

[Health](/section/health/)

### How a DNA Testing Kit Revealed a Family Secret Hidden for 54 Years

My parents never told me the truth about my biological father. Then i got the results of a DNA-testing kit

[Health](/section/health/)

### Why I Have Zero Regrets About My Childless Life

When I was younger, I tried unsuccessfully to have a baby. I have zero regrets about how things turned out

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How America Loses Its Edge

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why Trump’s Generals Have Abandoned Ship

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Susan Collins Is Trying to Stay in the Political Center. But That May Not Exist Anymore

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### Thousands of Women Are Born Without a Uterus. A New Procedure Offers Them Hope

The first U.S. baby born via uterus transplant just turned one. Here's what his life is like now

[Science](/section/science/)

### The Silent Shame of Male Infertility

When a couple can't conceive, it's not always because of the woman. But men really don't want to talk about it

### U.S.

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

### How an Oil Boom in West Texas Is Reshaping the World

An oil boom in West Texas is reshaping the economy, the nation and the world

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Exclusive: Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch

A TIME investigation reveals a Russian ex-spy was a key link between Paul Manafort and a Putin ally

[World](/section/world/)

### The Likely New Year’s Resolutions of World Leaders in 2019

[World](/section/world/)

### Syrian Women Are Embracing Their New Lives in Germany. But at What Cost?

Syrian women in Germany are embracing new lives, but at a cost


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