Mad #413 January 2002

• Cover Artist: Roberto Parada

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• Contents Page
• Letters
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Boston Pubic (TV satire)
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Tom Richmond art)
• A Mad Look at Security (Sergio Aragones)
• The Controversial Artist Instruction School
  (written by Frank Santopadre / James Warhola art)
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• Amazing Facts and Surprising Discoveries
  from the Human Genome DNA Project
  (written by Mike Snider / Paul Coker, Jr. art)

• Monroe &... Tinsel Teeth (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art)
• Mad's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Eddie Murphy
  (written by Mike Snider / Hermann Mejia art)
• The 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2001
  • 1. Jerry Falwell Attacks America (Angelo Torres art)
  • 2. Substance Abuse As A Career Move (written by Mike Mikula / Drew Friedman art)
  • 3. Little League Team, Major League Lie (written by Mike Snider / Ray Alma art)
  • 4. Clinton's $10 Million Book Deal: The Bucks Start Here
    (written by Arie Kaplan / Scott Bricher art / AP & Wide World photo)
  • 5. Anne Heche Says "Bye Bi" (written by Greg Leitman)
  • 6. Nascar's Crash Course in Recklessness (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / AP & Wide World photo)
  • 7. Err Jordan (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art)
  • 8. The High Court Sends Medical Marijuana Up In Smoke (Hermann Mejia art)
  • 9. McVeigh's Death Lottery: Needles and Wins (written by Jeff Kruse / Keith Seidel art)
  • 10. The IRS Rebate: Fuzzy Math (written by Dick DeBartolo)
  • 11. The Great McSwindle (written by Charlie Kadau / research Cheryl Spitzer)
  • 12. Puff Daddy / P. Diddy: A Ruse By Any Other Name
    (written by Greg Leitman / Mark Fredrickson art)
  • 13. China Gets the Oympics, Human Rights Gets the Shaft
    (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / AP & Wide World photo)
  • 14. The Backside Boys: Elton Duets With Eminem (written by Greg Leitman / Hermann Mejia art)
  • 15. "Grizzly" Al Gore (written by Scott Maiko / Scott Bricher art)
  • 16. The Dreadfully Awful, Really Bad XFL (John Caldwell)
  • 17. The Bush Daughters' Un-Happy Hour
  • 18. This Space For Rent - Dennis Tito (written by Greg Leitman / Richard Williams art)
  • 19. Gary Condit - Fold-In (Al Jaffee)
  • 20. What - Mad Sells Out? (written by Patrick Merrell / Norman Mingo and Patrick Merrell art)
• The Sopranos Family Circus (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Syracuse art)
• Season's Greetings 2001 from the Usual Gang of Idiots (Paul Coker, Jr. art)