TIME's Best Inventions of 2008

From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper — here are TIME's picks for the top innovations of 2008

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  2. Church Group Attacks Christmas Commercialism
  3. America's Most Wanted Teenage Bandit
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  5. Why Home Churches are Filling Up
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  8. Study: European Muslims Feel Shut Out
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