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MAY 15, 2017 WARNING: WE ARE NOT READY FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC SCIENCE KNOWS HOW TO FIGHT AN OUTBREAK— BUT POLICY STILL GETS IN THE WAY BY BRYAN WALSH HOW TO KEEP THE WORLD SAFE BY BILL GATES time.com VOL. 189, NO. 18 | 2017 6 | Conversation The View The Features Time Off △ 8 | For the Record Ideas, opinion, What to watch, read, A trained pig innovations The Pandemic Panic see and do backstage at The Brief Pandemics are the biggest global one of the last News from the U.S. and 21 | A physicist’s security threat that countries aren’t 51 | Groundhog performances of around the world new book debunks ready for.Scientific understanding Day and the rise of Ringling Bros. and popular myths Broadway musicals 11 | of infectious disease is better than Barnum & Bailey In his first 100 about aliens based on movies days,President ever, but policies and healthcare Circus, in Baltimore on April 28 Trump struggled 25 | The real history systems are decades behind 53 | Reviews: to parlay private- of Cinco de Mayo ByBryan Walsh32 The Handmaid’s sector expertise into Tale and Guardians Photograph by public-sector wins 26 | The truth about of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Andres Kudacki for how much salt is in The Future of Korea TIME 14 | Ian Bremmer: popular foods Moon Jae-in, the front runner in 56 | Paula Hawkins’ Venezuela is on the South Korea’s upcoming presidential latest novel, Into the brink of collapse 27 | The irony in election, believes in engaging with Water Starbucks’ Unicorn 15 | North KoreaBy Charlie Campbell40 Tribute to Frappuccino craze 59 | Susanna the late director Schrobsdorff: Jonathan Demme 28 | What smart- The Circus Leaves Town Privilege is in the home gadgets mean eye of the beholder 16 | The challenges A vestige of a time when enter- for the future of tainment was a lot harder to come by, of building a 60 | privacy Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey 9 Questions border wall, by the for Olive Kitteridge numbers 31 | Jon Meacham folds its tent after a 146-year run author Elizabeth ON THE COVER: on the implications ByDavid Von Drehle44 Strout Ebola virus under a of Trump’s selective microscope. 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