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Edition: South Pacific
Edition: South Pacific
No. 25
COVER
Person of the Year 2009: Ben Bernanke
The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. Thank the man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord

Top 10 Worst Christmas Movies
Animated Climate Talks: The Media Perspective
Will Bad Blood Scuttle the Pacquiao-Mayweather Fight?
Top 10 Freakishly Specific Lists from The Onion A.V. Club
Sony's Robot-Cam: Partying Without a Photographer
Michael Schumacher: Formula One Star to Return
Rehabilitating Joseph Stalin
'Santa Claus Special' Train Comes to Appalachia
The Best Travel Gadgets of 2009
Brittany Murphy's Movie Career