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Sailing into harm's way

Sailing into harm's way

Cover Story | With an abrupt change of orders, a Pacific carrier group heads to the Persian Gulf, doubling U.S. naval presence just as more Mideast tension flares

In this issue: "The surge is on," Feb. 3, 2007

Features

No girls allowed
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No girls allowed

Black History Month |  Single-sex schools help African-American boys succeed-but remain controversial

Descent into destruction
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Descent into destruction

Black History Month |  What's holding up black progress in America? Journalist and author Juan Williams points to black leaders and icons who turn away from black family values

'Holy hip-hop'
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'Holy hip-hop'

Black History Month |  Calvinism meets thumping baselines in a new breed of Christian rap

Coach Calm
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Coach Calm

Human Race |  Colts' Tony Dungy puts faith to work on sidelines

Hybrid coalition
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Hybrid coalition

Energy |  A new Congress adds momentum to an odd alliance of conservative "cheap hawks" and liberal "tree huggers"

'Hard is not hopeless'
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'Hard is not hopeless'

Iraq |  Before a skeptical Senate committee, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus outlines strategy for taming Islamic violence in Baghdad

Dispatches

The Buzz
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The Buzz

The latest on the week's biggest stories

Double standard
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Double standard

Clinton watchers should remember Rick Lazio

Quick Takes
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Quick Takes

Oddball occurrences

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Quotables

Memorable things they said

Reviews

Lifting the veil
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Lifting the veil

Movies |  The ugliness of disease and sin is the backdrop for Painted Veil's beauty

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Killer instinct

Television |  Dexter asks viewers to identify with the very darkest impulses

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Walking fine lines

Movies |  Pan's Labyrinth is a fairy tale that isn't for the faint of heart

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Bestselling CDs

Notable CDs |  Five best-selling digital albums according to Billboard

Notebook

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Setting up snares

Money |  Surveys suggest that love of riches is gaining in respectability among young Americans

Peyton's place
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Peyton's place

Sports |  Super Bowl may determine the legacy of Indianapolis star quarterback

Voices

Evangelical steamroller
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Evangelical steamroller

The climate is changing for the worse in environmental debates

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Mailbag

Letters from our readers

Letter from prison
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Letter from prison

"You have not messed up your life to the point ware God cant fix it"

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Wintry treadmill

New books challenge views of the past, assumptions about the future

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