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# January 11, 2021 | Vol. 197 No. 1January 11, 2021 |  
Vol. 197 No. 1

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January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific

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January 11, 2021

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Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, South America

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## Table of Contents

HealthPoliticsWorld

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### mRNA Technology Gave Us the First COVID-19 Vaccines. It Could Also Upend the Drug Industry

The remarkable scientific discoveries behind the new COVID-19 Vaccines

[Health](/section/health/)

### The COVID-19 Virus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Vaccines?

New variants of the COVID-19 virus raise concerns about whether they can escape vaccine protection

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How Trump's Effort to Steal the Election Tore Apart the GOP—and the Country

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members

[World](/section/world/)

### A Decade After the Arab Spring, These Activists Are Finding New Ways to Fight for Progress

[World](/section/world/)

### Seeding the Ocean: Inside a Michelin-Starred Chef's Revolutionary Quest to Harvest Rice From the Sea

Chef Ángel León wants to change the way we feed the world

[World](/section/world/)

### A Pro-Trump Mob Stormed the Halls of Congress. Photographs From Inside the Chaos at the Capitol


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