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# August 24, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 7 August 24, 2015 |  

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## Table of Contents

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### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### How Google Is Trying to Reinvent Itself

And maybe Silicon Valley, too 

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Guy Ritchie’s Rules for Reimagining Spy Flicks

<em>The Man From U.N.C.L.E.</em> debuts Friday 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _Straight Outta Compton_ Is a Bio-pic With a Sanitized Attitude

The new movie opens on Friday 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Grace Potter Puts the Pop in Pop-Rock

Reviewing her new album, ‘Midnight’ 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _Hamilton_ on Broadway

A Founding Father raps his way into musical history 

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: _A Manual for Cleaning Women_

A posthumous collection from Lucia Berlin

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### The Soda Industry Takes on Your Diet

Soft drink companies would rather talk about exercise than sugar 

[Health](/section/health/)

### Farm-to-Fridge Is Heating Up

New developments in the organic industry 

[Health](/section/health/)

### Autism Is Not a Disorder--It's an Opportunity

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### A Slowing China Still Picks Security Over Innovation

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### I’m Making the Case for Public Shaming

Unless you publicly shame me for doing so 

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The Knives Come Out for Donald Trump, but He's Not Going Anywhere

### U.S.

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

### What It's Like to Be a Cop in America

“Every time a police officer fires his weapon, the reputation of the police department is on the line” 

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

### In The Latest Issue (13 Aug 2015)

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

### 9 Questions With Claire McCaskill

As her memoir <em>Plenty Ladylike</em> hits shelves, Missouri’s Democratic Senator discusses Ferguson, Iran and making peace with the Clintons 

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (13 Aug 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### Ice Cube

The rapper, actor and former N.W.A member produced the hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton, starring his son O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Cube.

[World](/section/world/)

### Natural Aphrodisiacs

[World](/section/world/)

### The View From Behind the Badge

[World](/section/world/)

### Give Us the Ballot

[World](/section/world/)

### The Slide-Scraper

Visitors to London's Olympic Park have been taking stairs and elevators up the 375-ft. (114 m) ArcelorMittal Orbit--the U.K.'s tallest sculpture--since 2012\. Soon they'll have a chance to slide down.

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (13 Aug 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### Sundar Pichai Google's New CEO

In Google's unprecedented corporate restructuring, Sundar Pichai, 43, may be the biggest winner. His appointment caps a rise from middle management to the C-suite in just a decade.

[World](/section/world/)

### Verbatim (13 Aug 2015)

### Others

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