COVER

ESSAY

Friends in Need

Mark Zuckerberg joins the ranks of America's great philanthropists. How far will his gift go?

NATION

WORLD

The Laughing Bishop (The Well / Profile)

Apartheid's scourge evolved into the world's moral compass. As he hangs up his cassock, Desmond Tutu reflects on a life spent defending the oppressed

SOCIETY

TO OUR READERS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Young Blood (Profile)

Chloe Grace Moretz brings innocence to some very grownup roles

Reeler than Real (Movies)

A new breed of "documentaries" blurs the boundary between verifiable fact and movie truth

BUSINESS

SCIENCE

The Newest (and Horniest) Dinosaur: the Kosmoceratops (Paleontology)

According to a delightful new paper published Sept. 22 in the online science journal PloS One, the Kosmoceratops lived indeed — a good 76 million years ago, according to the scientists' reckoning

PEOPLE

10 Questions for Danielle Steel (10 Questions)

The prolific, best-selling novelist has a new book, Legacy, on sale now. Danielle Steel will now take your questions

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

LETTERS

BRIEFING

The Skimmer

Book Review: Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

GOP Candidates Withstand Dems' Efforts to Demonize (Washington: The Politics Page)

Republican candidates, including Wall Streeters, free traders and Big Business profiteers, have opened up polling leads in some of the choicest midterm contests, despite Democrats' efforts to disqualify them in the present based on their pasts

Eddie Fisher: The Songs, the Sins, the Scandal (Milestones)

Eddie Fisher, who died Sept. 22 at 82, had the smoothest voice in midcentury pop and lifelong struggles with drugs and marriage that became the stuff of Hollywood legend