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FEATURES

COVER STORY

Growing Up Digital
Is being online and on your cellphone all the time changing the way your brain works?

NATIONAL

The Price of Safety
Does the fight against terrorism require giving up our rights?

Census Winners & Losers
How the results of last year's census are literally redrawing the nation's political map

INTERNATIONAL
Marriage—or Else
In Afghanistan, girls as young as 8 are forced to marry. Trying to escape can result in beatings, mutilation, even death.

EDUCATION

Yearbook Makeovers
Should all students get 'equal time' in their high school yearbooks?

TIMES PAST

1961: The Bay of Pigs
A newly inaugurated President Kennedy backed a plan to overthrow Cuba's Communist regime. Fifty years later, the U.S. and Cuba are still at loggerheads.

DEPARTMENTS

NEWS & TRENDS
Robots on the moon, book surfing, semesters abroad, and what's funny about yoga

DEBATE
Can electric cars make a go of it?

THE ETHICIST
The party's over, but who's responsible for the damage?

CARTOONS
Some lighter looks at what's in the news