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# September 1, 2014 | Vol. 184 No. 8 September 1, 2014 |  

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September 1st, 2014 | Vol. 184, No. 8 | U.S.

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Primping Pooches at the 2014 World Dog Show

20,000 hounds hit Helsinki, all vying to be named top dog

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review:   _Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage_

His latest book shows Murakami in Living Color

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Living in a Fantasy World

In an era of techno marvels, we still crave magic

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### The New Rules of Viral Fundraising

How the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge made a splash 

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police

Anyone who thinks race does not skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention, Sen. Rand Paul writes for TIME, amid violence in Ferguson, Mo. over the police shooting death of Michael Brown

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race

Ferguson is not just about systemic racism — it's about class warfare and how America's poor are held back, says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Trayvon Martin's Mom: 'If They Refuse to Hear Us, We Will Make Them Feel Us'

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Beyond a Simple Solution for Ferguson

Why we need to address race relations in a thoughtful, provocative way 

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Banking Is for the 1%

Can’t get credit? You aren’t the only one. Why banks want to do business mainly with the rich

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Humanities, All Too Humanities!

Incoming college freshmen should study great books rather than come up with great apps

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### 10 Questions With Paul Ryan

The congressman on how to fix America, why Rand Paul is wrong and evading John Boehner’s toxic smoke 

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Jim Jeffords

Former Vermont Senator

### U.S.

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

### Inside the Tragedy of Ferguson

The shooting death of Michael Brown, and the violence that has followed, have only made the town’s problems worse

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

### In The Latest Issue (21 Aug 2014)

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

### Backlog at the Border

Immigration courts are buckling from the influx of children

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Most Dangerous Room in the World

Three-and-a-half years after a catastrophic meltdown, Fukushima is far from fixed

[World](/section/world/)

### The Culture (21 Aug 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (21 Aug 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Briefing (21 Aug 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (21 Aug 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Don Pardo

Iconic voice

[World](/section/world/)

### Mammograms Go 3-D

A high-tech imaging breakthrough could pick up more cancers

[World](/section/world/)

### Everything to Everyone

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (21 Aug 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### World (21 Aug 2014)

### Others

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