The January 6 , 2008 edition cover and main article asked whether Benazir Bhutto was " America 's best hope against Al-Qaeda , " after her December 27 , 2007 assassination . In response to reader and media complaints ( and besides individual newspapers noting the discrepancy to prevent reader confusion ) , '' Parade '' stated on their website : " Dear Parade Readers , '' Parade '' publishes more than 32 million copies of each issue and distributes them to 415 newspapers across the country . In order to meet our printing , distribution and insertion deadlines , we must send the issue to the printer three weeks before the cover date . Our Benazir Bhutto issue , for example , went to press on Dec. 19 . By the time Ms. Bhutto was slain on Dec. 27 , this issue of '' Parade '' was already printed and shipped to our partner newspapers . Recalling , reprinting and redistributing our January 6 issue was not an option . " A similar incident occurred in the February 11 , 2007 issue when Walter Scott 's " Personality Parade " reported that Barbaro , an American thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 2006 Kentucky Derby , was in a stable condition . Barbaro was euthanized thirteen days earlier , on January 29 , 2007
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