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# June 30, 2014 | Vol. 183 No. 25 June 30, 2014 |  

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Vol. 183 No. 25

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Issue name

June 30th, 2014 | Vol. 183, No. 25 | U.S.

Issue date

June 30, 2014

Location

U.S.

Related categories

[Government](/vault/subject/government/)

[Foreign Relations](/vault/subject/foreign-relations/)

[Military](/vault/subject/military/)

[Revolution](/vault/subject/revolution/)

[Afghanistan/Iraq](/vault/subject/afghanistaniraq/)

[Terrorism](/vault/subject/terrorism/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsWorld

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### 2030: The Year Retirement Ends

The real debt-and-deficit crisis facing our country isn’t national—it’s personal. A look at the coming retirement apocalypse and what we have to do to avoid it 

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### How Many People Watched _Orange Is the New Black_? No One Knows

When everything in pop culture can claim to be a smash, is anything?

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Sting’s Shipyard Serenade

After a decade devoid of new songs, Sting writes a musical about his youth

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _Famous in 12_ Tries to Fast-Track Celebrity

The CW and TMZ try to revolutionize fame

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### All About Yves.

Two biopics of the great French designer approach the runway

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Culture (19 Jun 2014)

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Pop Chart (19 Jun 2014)

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Casey Kasem

King of the Countdown

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### The Changing Lives of Teens

Kids have cut some risky behaviors--and picked up others

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Not Doing My Business

I found out what actually happens at most hotels' abandoned business centers

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Joe Manchin: The Outlier

The West Virginia Senator went to D.C. to get stuff done. Oh well

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The End of Iraq

The sudden military victories of a Sunni militant group threaten to touch off a maelstrom in the Middle East

[World](/section/world/)

### Boomers: Prepare for Your Second Act

Life is long. Yours may be overdue for an overhaul

[World](/section/world/)

### Harley Davidson Goes Electric

Will this battery-powered hog help the famed cyclemaker grow beyond aging boomers?

[World](/section/world/)

### Children at the Border

An exodus from Central America tests the U.S.

[World](/section/world/)

### The Net Flicks

Team Brazil fares better than it has in decades at the World Cup

[World](/section/world/)

### An IRS Computer Glitch Gives New Life to a Fading Scandal

[World](/section/world/)

### 10 Questions with Saroo Brierley

At the age of 5, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train. A quarter-century later he found his way home, using the Internet

[World](/section/world/)

### Carbon Rules Show Bad Arithmetic

Why the numbers in the President's Clean Power Plan don't add up

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (19 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### World (19 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Tony Gwynn

Batter Up

[World](/section/world/)

### Briefing (19 Jun 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Conversation (19 Jun 2014)


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