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FEATURES

COVER STORY

Immigration: 'Mixed Families'
Mom, Dad, and daughter are in the U.S. illegally, but the son, born here, is a citizen.

INTERNATIONAL

Bombs Away?
As Iran and North Korea race to get nuclear weapons, President Obama says his goal is a nuclear-free world. Is that realistic?

NATIONAL

Outside The Oval Office
How Darienne Page, 27, an Iraq War veteran, helps keep the West Wing running smoothly

What's in a Name?
Rhode Island considers changing its official name, which some say evokes its slave-trading past.

TIMES PAST

1929: From Boom to Bust
Eighty years later, how the lessons and legacies of the Great Depression are helping soften the impact of the current recession.

ENVIRONMENT

Cooking the Planet
A surprising source of global warming: soot from millions of small stoves in Asia and Africa

TECHNOLOGY

Are iPhones Killing the Novel?
When everyone's connected 24/7, many of literature's classic plot devices no longer work.

DEPARTMENTS

NEWS & TRENDS
Stone Age music, car-free in Germany, organic internships, bad beavers, and more

DEBATE
Should Supreme Court Justices continue to have life tenure?

NEW THIS YEAR

THE ETHICIST
Life's full of questions; he's got answers.

VOICES
Iranian-American Pantea Sotoodeh, 16, on the recent upheaval in Iran

CARTOONS
Some lighter looks at what's in the news