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A country up for grabs

Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest

Facing the algorithms

As police turn to facial recognition technology to identify suspects and solve cases, critics worry about privacy and false accusations

To police or not to police?

In Los Angeles, “defunding the police” led to disbanding a unit specially designed to help with homelessness

Voter migration

Donald Trump made gains among some Hispanic voters in 2020. Will the GOP continue the trend?

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Don't look now

When executives unveiled their television ratings system in 1997, WORLD predicted that far from making TV more family-friendly, it would worsen an already bad TV lineup.

Out of this world

Two sure-fire hits are shocking by today's abysmal television standards-but each for different reasons

Gridiron greatness

Perseverance pays off for three college stars

Native tongue lashing

Watch your language on the Net, watch your neighbor via the Net, and who's watching you on the Net?

Burned out

Burning Man art party turns out to be more meaningless than offensive, irrelevant than irreverent

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Life imitates Huxley It was a good decision to include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in your list of top 20th-century books. The nightmare utopia of that world is increasingly similar to ...

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Planned obsolescence

Beanie futures Bye bye, Beanie Babies? Ty Inc. abruptly announced last week that "all Beanies will be retired" by the year 2000, leaving kids and collectors wondering about the future of the to...

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Music: Duke and Hoagy at 100

Napoleon once said that he'd rather write the songs than write the laws, because people remember the songs. This year marks the 100th birthday of two of our century's greatest American composers: ...

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Hillary plays both sides of clemency controversy, as nationalists go free The terrorist two-step About a dozen radical Puerto Rican terrorists are on their way home after accepting a clemenc...

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Maybe somebody's conscience was bothering them and they decided to turn it in. Detective Donald Pasquarelli on the mysterious return-inside a black plastic bag outside the back door of a Pi...