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Disappearing Bees “This is not a world in which we want to live,” wrote Earth Eats, a public-radio show, posting Time’s Aug. 19 cover on Instagram (which featured the cover line A WORLD WITHOUT BEES). Bryan Walsh’s story on the demise of honeybees, the pollinating force of nature behind $15 billion in U.S. crops, led to commentary from Salon, where Lindsay Abrams lamented the lack of “promising solutions.” Meanwhile, American bees got short shrift, wrote Carol Davit of the Missouri Prairie Foundation. “The approximately 3,500 species of native bees in North America … help the survival of native bees and honeybees alike.”

Ted Cruz The Texas Senator’s comments on President Obama (who Cruz said has “profoundly dangerous” ideas) in Alex Altman’s profile prompted analyses at the Washington Post, USA Today and Huffington Post and lively responses from readers. “Please, please, please let Republicans like Cruz do their crazy best. Makes the elections in 2016 a cakewalk,” wrote Sunflower52 on TIME.com Commentary editor John Podhoretz frowned on Cruz’s pop-culture IQ, tweeting, “His reference … is Madonna and Sean Penn? They divorced 25 years ago!” On TIME.com supporter TedPeters called Cruz a “brilliant” thinker who would create jobs, while conceding, “He’s just not all that ‘cool’–the paramount characteristic for the media and the young.”

Tech-savvy kids Eliana Dockterman’s story about the merits of kids’ tech use sparked a debate on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and some sighs from baby boomers. “To me, there’s a big danger,” said panelist Donny Deutsch. “You’ve got to pull kids away, they can’t have their faces in these things.” On Twitter, elementary-school assistant principal Terran Newman took a different view: “Shocked to learn that all parents may not support digital learning.”

RED BORDER FILMS’

Harry Belafonte is one of 17 speakers featured in One Dream, a five-part docu-series from Red Border Films, TIME’s new filmmaking unit and interactive digital platform.

TO WATCH, VISIT TIME.COM/ONEDREAM

BEYOND THE COVER

On April 30, when Harry Belafonte sat for a photo and video shoot with TIME filmmaker Marco Grob–part of our One Dream project commemorating 1963’s March on Washington–the singer-activist recalled meeting Martin Luther King Jr. for the first time in the ’50s after hearing him speak at a Harlem church. “He had said that we would take maybe 20 or 30 minutes to just talk,” Belafonte says. “It was almost four hours when we finally broke for breath.”

FROM LIFE.COM

As part of our multimedia One Dream package, LIFE.com has assembled more than a dozen galleries featuring critical moments–and some never-before-published images–from the civil rights movement. Among the subjects: the Little Rock Nine, the first black students to attend Little Rock Central High School in 1957, and the Freedom Riders, who risked their lives integrating buses across the American South.

The Little Rock Nine battled state National Guardsmen, bottom, to enter school

In 1961, Freedom Riders protested segregation on buses

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