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FEATURES

COVER STORY

Women at War
Officially, women don't serve in combat. But in Iraq and Afghanistan they are fighting—and dying—as never before.

NATIONAL

Unfinished Business
Victims of some of the civil rights era's notorious crimes are finally getting justice.

Do Dollars Discriminate?
Two views of a judge's ruling that paper currency discriminates against the blind.

A Town & Team Transformed
A boys soccer team made up of refugees takes the field in a small Georgia town.

INTERNATIONAL

Putin's Russia
Will Russia's fragile post-Soviet democracy survive the presidency of Vladimir Putin?

TIMES PAST

1917: Russian Revolutions
How Russia went from one form of authoritarian rule under the Czar to another, under Lenin, in less than a year.

DEPARTMENTS

NEWS & TRENDS
What college students watch, when dogs get fat, Super Bowl leftovers, and more

DEBATE
Should Bible classes be taught in public schools?

VOICES
Richie Frohlichstein, 17, on being a congressional page

OPINION
Excerpts from New York Times columnists

CARTOONS
Some lighter looks at what's in the news