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FEATURES

COVER STORY

Coming to America
A look at today's immigrants: where they're coming from and how they're doing once they get here

INTERNATIONAL

Global Challenges
The top 10 foreign-policy issues facing President Obama and the nation

ESSAY

View from a Sweatshop
A Times columnist says sweatshops, however awful, offer millions around the world a way out of poverty.

NATIONAL

Supreme Decisions
A look at three key constitutional cases before the Supreme Court

BUSINESS

Magic Number
Why "99 cents"—and other prices ending in "9"—get us to buy

TIMES PAST

1979: Iranian Revolution
How Iran went from one of America's staunchest allies to one of its most worrisome adversaries

DEPARTMENTS

NEWS & TRENDS
Skateboarding for credit, cybersleuthing, X-ray tape, and more

DEBATE
Should states enact tougher gun-control laws?

OPINION
Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman on immigration and the economy

VOICES
Delisa Richards, 18, on being homeless

CARTOONS
Some lighter looks at what's in the news