The question most often asked of us--and the hardest to answer--is how TIME gets out each week. This process is, inevitably, an extremely complicated one. Below is the Art Department's attempt to answer the question. Probably no two people at TIME would agree with this flow chart in every detail, but I think that it does hit the high spots.

Cordially yours,

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