COVER

ESSAY

Eureka!

One thing technology can't give us is time for serendipitous discovery. Why we need to reinvent free time

NATION

The Future of Detroit: How to Shrink a City (The Well / Assignment Detroit)

Detroit once thrived on bigness, but now it has to leave that idea behind. The secret of Rust Belt urban revival: smaller is better. If you want a healthy, bustling city, huddled masses are a good thing

Detroit Made Small

Photographer Olivo Barbieri brings his startling tilt-shift technique to the Motor City to illustrate TIME's story on the city's shrinkage

Bringing Dogs to Heal: Care for Veterans with PTSD (The Well / Veterans)

It has taken nearly a decade of war--and the lack of a cure for posttraumatic stress disorder--to get officials to study the benefits of giving service animals to mentally ailing soldiers and veterans

Video: How Dogs Help Veterans Cope with PTSD

Struggling with post-traumatic stress, veteran David Sharpe says he found a dog at a shelter that saved his life. Now, with a group called P2V, he pairs other vets with rescued pets

WORLD

Postcard from Fort McMurray

As Canada mines the world's second biggest oil reserves, one indigenous group looks to James Cameron for help. Digging deep into the oil-sands debate

The Second Calamity (The Well / World)

Rains bring Haiti's quake victims a new scourge: cholera

TO OUR READERS

What We Learned in Detroit

Assignment Detroit: From a house in the city, Time Inc. magazines covered Detroit's struggle to survive. The moral: the city brims with tales of shock, inspiration and hope

LETTERS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Crazy Train (Movies)

Blue collar heroes must stop a speeding locomotive. This sounds like a job for Denzel Washington

SOCIETY

Honey, Can You Hear Me Now? (Life / Marriage)

Smart-phone apps can help you plan a wedding or conduct an affair. But can they rescue your marriage?

SPECIAL SECTION

Can China Tap the Brake? (Global Business / Investment Horizon)

Once a growth manager, Beijing now has to slow things down. The task is a tricky one

Kno Wants a Slice of Apple (Global Business / Small Business)

Chegg.com's Osman Rashid says his e-textbook tablet can take the iPad to school

Business Books (Global Business)

The 30-year history of the 2007-09 financial crisis. How Wall Street fed the sleazy subprime-mortgage industry

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The Future of Content (The Well / TIME 100 Roundtable)

In a world of infinite content online — most of it accessible for free — how do creators find audiences and get paid?

PEOPLE

10 Questions for Salman Rushdie (10 Questions)

The author's new book, Luka and the Fire of Life, is out Nov. 16. Salman Rushdie will now take your questions

BRIEFING

The Case for Nancy Pelosi's Staying Put (Washington: The Politics Page)

Republicans are celebrating and many Democrats bemoaning Nancy Pelosi's effort to remain in her party's leadership after the crushing midterms. But she may end up having the last laugh, yet again