COVER
Give (Frozen) Peas a Chance — and Carrots Too (Health)
Forget what the foodies and gourmands tell you. Some of the tastiest and healthiest food around is also the least expensive and most ordinary. And you need go no further than the supermarket to find it
Which foods pay off? (Features / Health)
FEATURES
Africa Rising (World)
The continent is the world's next great growth engine--but hundreds of millions are at risk of being left behind
The Gaza Problem (World)
BRIEFING
Crowdfunding a Cure (Health)
The sick are getting strangers to pay their medical bills
Generation of Orphans (Spotlight)
South Africa's AIDS epidemic forces grandmothers to parent again
First of the $160 Million F-35s (Milestones)
Friend Request (Washington Memo)
How the Obama campaign connected with young voters
Briefing
Warren Rudman (Milestones)
Centrist Senator
Milestones (Milestones)
Occupy 2.0 (Economy)
The fringe movement gets a professional makeover
World
Cornel Lucas (Milestones)
Photographer of the stars
How This Cancer Patient Raised $144,000 (Health)
LETTERS
Inbox (Inbox)
COMMENTARY
Wall Street's Bet on the Fiscal Cliff (The Curious Capitalist)
The smart money says a deal has to get done. But Washington isn't good at smart
Campaign 2012: The Report Card (In the Arena)
Why the winners should listen to the reasonable arguments of the losers
THE CULTURE
Lost and Found (Holiday Movies)
In Rust and Bone, tragedy plays matchmaker
Stripes (Holiday Movies)
In Life of Pi, Ang Lee stages a triumphant battle of boy vs. beast
Extreme-Sports Moviemaking (Holiday Movies)
For Bradley cooper and David O. Russell, silver linings playbook was "an athletic endeavor"
Killer Instincts (Holiday Movies)
Brad Pitt's charisma: a weapon of mass destruction
'Til Death Do Us Part (Holiday Movies)
An incandescent portrait of love everlasting
Peter Ramsey's Drawing Power (Holiday Movies)
How a first-timer got the director's chair for the season's biggest animated film
Love Among the Ruins (Holiday Movies)
A family torn apart by the 2004 tsunami
Sweet Charity (The Awesome Column)
It's time to give back--to the founder of my new foundation
Not So Psycho (Holiday Movies)
A making-of movie downplays the darker side of Hitchcock
Lights. Camera. Trapeze! (Holiday Movies)
TIME's fearless correspondent ran away to join the circus. Here's what he learned
10 Questions for Mel Brooks (10 Questions)
Funnyman Mel Brooks on late-night TV hosts, womb envy and not getting credit for inventing the cell phone