Science
- A Broiling Debate on the High Seas
- NASA's Plan for a Comeback Gets a Big Boost
- Taking a Trip for Your Mental Health
- For Zoo Elephants, Greener Pastures
- How to Answer Physics' Ultimate Questions
- Probing the Martian Arctic
- The Fight Over Fixing the Environment
- Coming Soon to a Pharmacy Near You
- Plague 2.0
World
- Dithering Division and the Damage Done
- After Castro
- A War Without End Gets Worse
- Ségo and Sarko Go to the Palace
- The Year of The...
- A Changing of the Guard
- Revolt of the Rural Poor
- The World Votes
- An Illegal Alien Problem — In Mexico
- The Taliban Looms, and Poppies Bloom
- The Rise of the Quiet Negotiator
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Technology
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No one can see the future. But there's no harm in some enlightened and educated guessing. TIME presents a thinking person's guide to the year to come.