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# June 2, 2014 | Vol. 183 No. 21 June 2, 2014 |  

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Issue name

June 2nd, 2014 | Vol. 183, No. 21 | U.S.

Issue date

June 2, 2014

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentHealthIdeasScienceU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Lily Allen Takes the Crown

The outspoken singer is making the sharpest pop songs that radio won’t play

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Good, the Bad and the Silly: _A Million Ways to Die in the West_

Seth McFarlane brings a comedy-western to the summer blockbuster set

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Norway's Proust

The unlikely stardom of Karl Ove Knausgaard

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Gordon Willis

Cinema's "Prince of Darkness"

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Pop Chart (22 May 2014)

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Saving Preemies

Dedicated caregivers are helping the tiniest babies survive—and thrive 

[Health](/section/health/)

### Everything You Need to Know About MERS

A dangerous new disease goes global

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### VA Chief Eric Shinseki (Still) Must Go

The VA is broken. It’s past time to fix this shameful bureaucratic tragedy

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### How I Learned to Stop Fretting and Just Raise the Kids

Lessons from an amateur parent

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Love Me Tinder

My wife and I try a dating app to see how we'd fare if we got divorced. She won

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### Tom Steyer: Green Giant

He made his fortune as an investor. Now he's spending millions to level the climate debate. Will his party go along?

[Science](/section/science/)

### How I Almost Got to Decide the Next XPRIZE

Some of the smartest and most influential people gathered in outside L.A. this weekend to brainstorm the next great innovation contest

### U.S.

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

### Jeb Magruder

Watergate conspirator

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Narendra Modi: The New Face of India

Despite a controversial record, the politician has a historic mandate from voters. Now he must revive the nation’s fortunes and reset ties with friend and foe alike

[World](/section/world/)

### Rafael Nadal’s High Aces

The world’s top ranked player is chasing tennis history—and trying his hand at high-stakes poker. Will his body--and his luck--hold out?

[World](/section/world/)

### 10 Questions With Ferran Adrià

The El Bulli chef talks about the weirdness of honey and why everyone is wrong about tomatoes

[World](/section/world/)

### Crude Awakening

The shale-oil boom is ferrying a new danger to America's freight railways

[World](/section/world/)

### Hope Without Change

Obama shows his frustration on the fundraising circuit

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (22 May 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (22 May 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Culture (22 May 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### World (22 May 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Briefing (22 May 2014)


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