50 Best Websites 2008
Some are as useful as a GPS device, others aren't that useful but give you something to do when you had nothing planned for the day. Put them all together and they become TIME.com's 2008 picks for the best the Web has to offer
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Arts & Entertainment
Business
Crime
Energy & Environment
- Rio Climate Summit: Top 10 Priorities for a Planet in Peril
- Heroes of the Environment 2009
- Top 10 Deadliest Earthquakes
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Education
- Top 10 Bad Teachers
- The 20 Best- and Worst-Paid College Majors
- School of Thought: 11 Education Activists for 2011
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Health & Medicine
- Top 10 Iconic Junk Foods
- What You Need to Know About Bullying
- Back to School: Best Lunchboxes for Kids (and Their Parents!)
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Internet
- 50 Websites That Make the Web Great
- Top 10 Twitter Controversies
- The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011
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Lifestyle
Personal Finance
Politics
Religion
- Top 10 Failed Predictions
- Top 10 Pat Robertson Gaffes
- Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Ramadan
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Science
Sports
- Top 10 Worst First Pitches
- Top 10 NYC-vs.-Boston Showdowns
- Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About the New England Patriots
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Tech
- The Apple Revolution: 10 Key Moments
- Top iPhone Applications
- 15 Fantastic Gadgets for Father's Day
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Travel
United States
- Top 10 Controversial Supreme Court Cases
- The American Dream: A Biography
- The Amazing Adventures of Ben Franklin
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War & Terrorism
- Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience
- Return to Baghdad
- Seven Years in Iraq: An Iraq War Timeline
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