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# February 8, 2016 | Vol. 187 No. 4February 8, 2016 |  
Vol. 187 No. 4

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February 8th, 2016 | Vol. 187, No. 4 | U.S.

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February 8, 2016

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### A Barbie for Every Body

Beauty ideals have changed. Can the blond icon catch up?

[Business](/section/business/)

### Review: In _Originals_, Freethinkers Play by Rules

Adam Grant explains what it takes to launch truly new ideas

[Business](/section/business/)

### Review: _The Witness_ Is a Rubik’s Cube, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Video Game

The puzzles will absorb you for hours

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Review: Fear and Loathing Overcome Fake Waves in _The Finest Hours_

Chris Pine stars in the Coast Guard movie

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Revisiting _Gilda_, Ablaze With Rita Hayworth

Criterion has released the restored classic

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### The New Rules for Keeping Your Heart Safe

When it comes to protecting your most critical organ, new science is making old advice obsolete

[Health](/section/health/)

### Why the Zika Outbreak Marks a New Normal for Infectious Disease

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Barbie's Problem Is Far Beyond Skin-Deep

Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking the change means Mattel has your daughter's best interests at heart

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Ralph Nader: What Is Michael Bloomberg Thinking?

The problem is not about indecision—it's a deeply researched hesitation 

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Predicting Which Presidential Candidates Will Win by How Good Their Volunteer Jobs Are

The cooler the gig, the lower the chances

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Rush. Trump. Cruz. Fox News. Can the Republican Party Avoid a Crack-Up?

The GOP’s infighting could jeopardize its future

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### How Cam Newton Became the Face of the NFL

### U.S.

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

### What You Said About ... (28 Jan 2016)

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Airplane 'Skylight'

[World](/section/world/)

### The Science of Mob Aggression

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (28 Jan 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Hot on the Trail (28 Jan 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (28 Jan 2016)

[World](/section/world/)

### 12 Questions With Freed Iranian Prisoner Matthew Trevithick

The American aid worker, 30, was recently released from Iranian detention. He describes his 41 days in the country’s Evin Prison

[World](/section/world/)

### Kether Donohue

After wrapping Season 2 of FXX's acclaimed raunch-com You're the Worst, the actor dons her Pink Lady jacket as Jan in Fox's Grease: Live, which airs Jan. 31.

[World](/section/world/)

### Iran's President Makes New Friends In Europe

[World](/section/world/)

### What Should We Name 'Planet 9'?

[World](/section/world/)

### Vanishing Waters of the World

[World](/section/world/)

### Abe Vigoda

An actor of cranky grandeur

[World](/section/world/)

### Verbatim (28 Jan 2016)

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