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# December 15, 2014 | Vol. 184 No. 23 December 15, 2014 |  

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Issue name

December 15th, 2014 | Vol. 184, No. 23 | U.S.

Issue date

December 15, 2014

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### The Man Who Wired the World

Mark Zuckerberg’s crusade to put every single human being online 

[Business](/section/business/)

### In The Latest Issue (4 Dec 2014)

[Business](/section/business/)

### The Air Bag Blowout

Air bags are meant to save lives. Now a massive recall shows how they can turn deadly 

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Charli XCX Rages Against the Pop Machine

Her new album “Sucker” arrives Dec. 15 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Hollywood’s Season for Women

Finally, complex females flourish on both sides of the camera 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Alton Brown’s Existential Stew

The touring TV chef hunts down the recipe for joy 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: The Painfully Funny _Becoming Richard Pryor_

How his radical voice sought shape amid chaos 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Ian Rankin Remembers P.D. James

“Her scalpel-like intellect cut through cant and unearned privilege”

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Mike Nichols’s Serious Showmanship

Remembering the legendary director 

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Burned Books in the Holy Land

 Jewish and Arab parents watch as Israel’s hopes for peace fade

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Ferguson Was the Spark — Eric Garner Is the Fire

Are we trying to create a world devoid of any racist bias, or are we trying to stop cops from shooting black men?

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Eric Holder Seizes the Ferguson Moment

The Attorney General goes on the road 

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### 10 Questions With Yao Ming

The retired NBA star wants everyone to stop buying ivory—and wishes he’d shot more 3s 

### U.S.

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

### Crisis on Fraternity Row

A scandal at the University of Virginia raises new concerns about the role of Greek life in college sexual assaults 

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Russia's Fifth Column

Vladimir Putin is stirring up Russian speakers in Eastern Europe—and using them to expand Moscow’s influence 

[World](/section/world/)

### The Culture (4 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (4 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Briefing (4 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Great American Calorie Crackdown

Why some nutrition facts are getting harder to ignore

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (4 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Ashton Carter

Obama's latest Pentagon boss

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (4 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### World (4 Dec 2014)

### Others

[Home Improvement for the HolidaysThe togetherness is bliss. But I need an antidote for all the stuff that comes with it ](/3617668/home-improvement-for-the-holidays/)


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