April 05, 2019 Issue

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The 10 Best Hospitals in the World
The hospitals on our list are all world leaders in health care, but these are the very best—the top 10, according to Statista's panel of doctors, medical professionals and administrators across four continents
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Digital Tracking Program Helps Obese Patients Lose Big

Obesity takes a decade off a person's life span, on average, and it afflicts a third of Americans. That means it's on track to rob the current U.S. population of a billion years of life. Dr. Jamy Ard wants to use digital technology to win some of those years back.
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Troubled Waters

In a city where blackouts have left millions without running water, a man bathes in a stream at Waraira Repano mountain on March 13. The power crisis shut down pumping stations, forcing desperate citizens to seek relief elsewhere—from water trucks (distribution is controlled by the military), public fountains and filthy rivers.
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Entertainment
'King Lear' Never Gets Old
For Glenda Jackson, Jayne Houdyshell and Elizabeth Marvel, the stars of Broadway's new gender-bending production, "It's Trump, it's Russia, it's North Korea."

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