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# September 4, 2017 | Vol. 190 No. 9 September 4, 2017 |  

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Vol. 190 No. 9

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Issue name

September 4th, 2017 | Vol. 190, No. 9 | U.S.

Issue date

September 4, 2017

Location

U.S.

Related categories

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Startups Are Laser-Focused on Helping Self-Driving Cars See

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### A Portrait of Male Beauty In Anguish

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The Soul of an Old Machine

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Here's How Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee Made a Truly Unstoppable Summer Jam

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### 'He Is Part of My Makeup.' Jim Carrey on What He Learned From Jerry Lewis

'I’ve always had this psychic connection with Jerry Lewis'

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Dick Gregory

Civil rights icon

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Advantage of Universal Pre-K

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Jesmyn Ward, Heir to Faulkner, Probes the Specter of Race In the South

The award-winning author's new novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing" is a mystical history

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Me, My Liberal Wife and What Happened When We Went to a Gun Range

'She wanted to protect herself from the people who had guns to protect themselves'

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Tennis Star Garbiñe Muguruza, on Whether She's the U.S. Open Favorite

An interview with the Wimbledon champion

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Trump Tries Presidential, Before Reverting to Old Habits

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry

How your child's rec league turned into a $15 billion industry

### U.S.

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

### Will Women Ever Break the Bronze Ceiling?

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### France's Golden Boy Loses His Luster

[World](/section/world/)

### Hong Kong Jails Its First Prisoners of Conscience

[World](/section/world/)

### Will Nigeria's Ailing President Name a Successor?

[World](/section/world/)

### World Wonders Under Wraps

[World](/section/world/)

### How Diana Became Britain's 'Queen of the Heart'

[World](/section/world/)

### The Lego House

[World](/section/world/)

### The 200 Americans Living in North Korea Have Little Time Left to Leave

They have until Sept. 1 to get out.

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (24 Aug 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### For the Record (24 Aug 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### What You Said About ... (24 Aug 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### This Just In (24 Aug 2017)

[World](/section/world/)

### Pop Chart (24 Aug 2017)


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