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6 AMERICAN NOTE BOOK
At last, conservatives are leaving their (bite) mark on Hollywood. By Michelle Cottle 8 INTERNATIONAL NOTEBOOK
Succession plans in Saudi Arabia give stability, for now. By Christopher Dickey
10 PERSON OF INTEREST Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut.
By Melinda Liu
11 WORLD ON A PAGE Bossy Aussie. By Tunku Varadarajan 12 SPORTS By Trevor Butterworth
HE AL TH ByEJ, Graff MONEY By Rob Cox 16 RIGHTS
Entitled to a fair shot. By Barack Obama 18 REPORTER AT LARGE
Tired of the Taliban: villagers in Afghanistan's Ghazni province rise up against the militants.
By Ron Moreau
FEATURES
22 The Tyrant's Brutal Legacy
As Egypt's democracy fights for its life, Hosni Mubarak Is at death's door. By Tarek Masoud 28 Survivors
Capturing portraits of the young men and women who lived through last year's massacre in Norway. Photographs and text by Andrea Gjestvang
34 The Electroshock Novelist
The bad boy of literary England has always been fascinated by Britain's dustbin empire. Now Martin Amis turns an eye to American excess.
By Sam Tanenhaus 38 The Digital 100
They've made billions and toppled regimes.
Now they want to rewire yom world.
. 50 Charlie Sheen's Last Stand
Hollywood's enfant terrible is back with a new show. Despite Anger Management, he's still unhinged, unchanged, and unrepentant.
By Michael Ware 56 Born to Run
Mexico's Tarahumara are the world's greatest ultrarunners-and the next victims of the drug war. By Aram Roston
OMN!VORE
62 FOOD Reviving locavore rools in Paris.
t5.q.-ï::-!TERA"TU H.t:- K,vrIter ,vria envlslOne our postmodern world.
66 BOOKS A former ABC News chiefonhis changing industry.
73 COMICS Egypt's most famous cartoonist.
74 SPORTS Mixed martial arts in Brazil.
76 THE CITY Lynn Freedreflects on Durban, South Africa.
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