The death of Steve Jobs on October 5 became the big media story of the week. News magazines, business magazines, music magazines, and celebrity magazines all rushed to get him on their covers, and the sight of his face splayed across newsstand shelves indicated the breadth of his influence over modern society. Elsewhere around the world: religious clashes in Pakistan and Egypt; street battles in Libya; socialist realism in North Korea; zombies on Wall Street; Johnny Depp living the high life; a marvelous objectification of athletic bodies, and a world of beauty in a grain of sand.
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