Issue Contents

Nov-Dec 2009: New Cures for Everything

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Cover Story:

The End of Disease

We've got the prescription for what ails you: bacteria to cure cancer, viruses to fix your heart, and worms that'll solve all your problems, from arthritis to asthma. Why does the future of medicine look so weird? Because the scientists of the past got so much wrong.

> The Quadrillion Bugs Inside You ... And How They're Going to Help You Live Forever

> Meet H.Pylori: Your Body's Best Frenemy

> Old Brains, New Tricks: How Neuroplasticity Helps Blind Men See with Their Tongues

> Diet of Worms: How Parasites Will Cure Autoimmune Disorders

Features:

It's not even swedish! shocking truths about ikea

By linda rodriguez
The discount empire offers cheap, good-looking furniture with funny names-but it comes at a price. Take a peek at the skeletons hiding inside IKEA's well-organized closet.

Gabo's Wild Ride: the incredibly true adventures of gabriel garcìa màrquez

By linda rodriguez
Secret witch doctors. Little girls who eat nothing but dirt. A family parrot that predicts a bull charging through the kitchen. Some call Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez's strange and lovely stories fiction. We're calling them memoirs.

scatter_brained:

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This issue's Scatterbrained has all the variety of a Swiss Army knife. Flip open page 16 for facts about invisible jump ropes, or pull out page 12 to get the story of a life-saving squeegee. Plus, it comes fully loaded with stories about elephant-size water bottles, rubber duckies, and so much more.

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Masterpiece #88: James Whistler's "a portrait of the artist's Mother"

By elizabeth lunday
James Whistler was a lot of things-a drunk, a racist, a rabble-rouser. But he definitely wasn't a mama's boy. In fact, Whistler was adamant that the famous painting of his mother wasn't about his mother at all. Here's why.

America's next top energy source

By maggie koerth-baker
Move over, wind power. Scientists are plumbing the depths of the oceans and the far reaches of space to bringus the hottest new energy sources. Check out what'll be charging up the runways in the year 2050.

50-Cent Tour

kashmir

By haley sweetland edwards
Bedazzled taxis, soft sweaters, and tea made with rancid yak's milk-all in the middle of one of the most hotly contested spots on the planet! Haley Sweetland Edwards gives you the scoop on the region's luxurious houseboats, its daily uprisings, and everything in between.