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# October 12, 2015 | Vol. 186 No. 14 October 12, 2015 |  

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthPoliticsU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### The Volkswagen Scandal Will Do Major Damage to Germany

How the country will be affected

[Business](/section/business/)

### Start-Ups Offer Handymen on Demand

A new spate of websites and services specialize in all your fix-it needs

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Art of the Boring Memoir

Or how I learned to find drama in my life story

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Inside the Pop-Song Industrial Complex

A new book, <em>The Song Machine</em>, shows how the industry really works

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Another Book About Wizarding Boarding School

Rainbow Rowell’s <em>Carry On</em> Is Like <em>Harry Potter</em> Turned Inside-Out

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: Janet Jackson’s New Album _Unbreakable_

The singer preaches resilience in her ecstatic new songs

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### A Thrilling High-Wire Act in _The Walk_

With a genuflection for 9/11

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Quick Talk With Justin Theroux

The actor returns to <em>The Leftovers</em>

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Everybody Loves Phil Rosenthal

The creator of <em>Everybody Loves Raymond</em> gets his own travel show

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Naomi Klein’s Chilling View of Warming in _This Changes Everything_

Another climate change movie

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Why Doctors Are Rethinking Breast-Cancer Treatment

Too much chemo. Too much radiation. And way too many mastectomies

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside Ben Carson’s Unlikely—and Uncommonly Spiritual—Campaign

It’s not brain surgery

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### John Boehner Exits and a New Fight for the GOP Begins

A shift in political power is underway

### U.S.

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

### Bubble Trouble for Standardized Testing

Why the SAT and the ACT are competing for students long before college

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

### Los Angeles Becomes 'Broad' City

A billionaire art lover has turned an L.A. street into an outgrowth of his passion for collecting, building and meddling

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

### _Black Silent Majority_ and What We Can Learn From History’s Criminal Justice Reformers

A new book looks at the roots of black incarceration rates

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

### 10 Questions With Rob Schenck

The evangelical leader and anti-abortion activist explains his unorthodox stance on guns as a film, <i>The Armor of Light</i>, follows his crusade

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Putin Takes on Syria

And makes Russia a global player again

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (1 Oct 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Smarter Screen

[World](/section/world/)

### Would-Be Olympic Sports

Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics revealed a shortlist for potential new additions to the Summer Games, which included baseball/softball and these four sports. The final decisions will come in August.

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (1 Oct 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### Verbatim (1 Oct 2015)

[World](/section/world/)

### On the Road With Pope Francis

[World](/section/world/)

### Grownup Building Blocks

### Others

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