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- The 5 Best Viral Videos of December
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 31: Say Goodbye to 2012
- Illinois Sen. Kirk to Return a Year After Stroke
- TIME’s No. 1 Song of 2012: No, It’s Not ‘Gangnam Style’
- What I Covet: Hugo Boss Velvet Wedge
- More Food for Hungry Students: USDA Tweaks School Meals
- The Netbook Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Resting
- Monday’s Political Ledes
- Snack Boxes: The Latest Healthy Eating Trend
- New Year’s Eve 2012 Celebrations Kick Off
- The Hobbit: Why Are There No Women in Tolkien’s World?
- The Year in TV: Welcome to Pawnee
- The West Bank’s 2012: The Year of the Israeli Settlement
- Democratic Officials: Fiscal Cliff Deal Reached
- Destination Kurdistan: Is This Autonomous Iraqi Region a Budding Tourist Hot Spot?
- Person of the Year
- 10 Tech-Industry Predictions for 2013
- Yay for Recess: Pediatricians Say It’s as Important as Math or Reading
- The 9 Funniest Tweets About the Kimye Baby
- Doctors: Blood Clot Located in Clinton’s Head
- Cliff Notes
- Coney Island's Post Sandy Struggles
- Person of the Year: President Barack Obama
- Today in TIME Tech History: New York to Chicago in Six Hours (1928), Retail Antitheft Tags (1984), CDs vs. DAT (1990) and More
- Outline of a Fiscal Deal Emerges as Deadline Looms
- Fashion Forward: Male Model Andrej Pejic Covers Elle Serbia
- TIME’s Fearless Sports Predictions for 2013
- Person of the Year: President Barack Obama
- Hillary Clinton Hospitalized for Blood Clot: How Concussions and Clots Connect
- 2012: A Year of Strange Landscapes
- Obama: Fiscal Deal in Sight But No Solution Yet
- The Hunt for the Vicuña: Can This Andean Creature Be a Cash Cow?
- France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional
- Hollywood Solves Its Fiscal Cliff Crisis: Hobbit, Django and Les Mis All Win Big
- Sunday’s Political Ledes
- Cliff Notes
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- The Sunday Shows
- Top 10 Les Mizzes Better Than the New Les Miz
- India Demands Change as It Mourns Gang-Rape Victim
- Saturday’s Political Ledes
- Rainbows in the Frame: Emblems of Hope in a Dark Year
- The Latest on 41
- This Dumb Year: The 57 Lamest Moments in Tech 2012
- France’s Colonial Hangover: Apologizing Abroad, Ignoring Injustice at Home
- Friday’s Political Ledes
- Shark Tank Bursts in Shanghai Mall, Injuring 15 People
- Cartoons of the Week: December 22–28
- Another Attempt to Clear the Field
- Russia’s Adoption Politics: Defeated Families Caught in a Diplomatic Tailspin
- The Business of Creativity: The Chocolate Makers
- The Top Money New Year’s Resolutions for 2013
- The Last Harvest: South African Vineyard Yields Much More Than Grapes
- How the Fiscal Cliff Will Force Big Biz to Turn Against Small Biz
- The Top 5 Tech Biz Stories of 2012
- Study Hints at Potential Increased Risk of Cancer Among 9/11 Rescue Workers
- Kerry for Markey
- Dead British Spy Probably Locked Himself into Duffel Bag
- 9 Mistakes You’re Making on LinkedIn
- How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick: Q&A with an Expert on Change
- Make the Job More Like a Game
- Fewer US Banks Failing as Industry Strengthens
- 9 Handy Financial Rules of Thumb
- VIDEO: SpaceX’s Grasshopper Rocket Goes up 131 Feet — and Comes Back Down
- Avoid Sky-High Rates When You Take Flight
- Last Ditch Effort to Avoid Fiscal Cliff Under Way
- Schoolchildren Send Thousands of Handmade Snowflakes to Sandy Hook
- How Jennifer Lawrence and Tommy Lee Jones Made Our List of the Year’s Best Movie Performances
- Cabinetry
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 28: Fun with Rockets
- What If America’s Best Ideas Were Behind It?
- Kate Middleton’s Nose Most Requested Celeb Facial Feature in U.K.
- December's Top Viral Videos
- Indian Rape Victim Dies in Hospital
- The NBA New Year: A Tale of Two Sad Sacks
- The TIME 2012 News Quiz
- Vacation Robo-Post: TV to Look Forward to in 2013
- Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland
- Starbucks Tries to Inspire a Fiscal Cliff Agreement with Cup Message
- VIDEO: Ohio Traffic Reporter Bob Herzog’s “Dance Party Friday” Is Totally Crazy
- 10 Big Retail Trends from the 2012 Holiday Shopping Season
- Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM’s Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
- Burmese Democracy Icon’s Sweater Sells for $49,000
- Strike Likely Averted at East Coast Ports
- EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Announces Resignation
- Cliff Notes: Unsticking
- The Winter Storm That Ruined Christmas (Travel): New Photos of the Fallout
- Reid Says Country Headed over Fiscal Cliff, as Obama Races Back from Hawaii
- The Flops: Cloud Atlas and the Year’s Other Terrible Movies
- States Show Improvements but Remain Unprepared for Public-Health Emergencies
- Delta Airlines Receives 22,000 Applications for 300 Jobs
- Find Dennis Lehane’s Dog and Get a Part in His Next Crime Novel
- 2013: A Cloudy Forecast for Renewable Energy, with a Silver Lining
- Today in TIME Tech History: Bullet-Proof Vest (1926), Loch Ness Monster (1968), the Rise of Blogs (2004) and More
- Hugh Jackman: Les Miz’s Leading Man Talks to TIME
- Storm Whips into Northeast, Carrying Snow, Rain and Flight Delays
- How Treating Wrinkles May Also Relieve Depression
- Toddlers’ Early Language Skills May Influence Later Anger Management
- ‘Stormin’ Norman,’ 1934–2012
- Thursday’s Political Ledes
- The Great Housing Rebound of 2012: How the Fed Helped Sellers Beat the Odds
- Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Picked to Fill Senate Seat
- One Writer’s Favorite Sports Moment of 2012. What’s Yours?
- Oh la Vache! Burger King Returns to France
- Trouble Brewing: The Craft Beer Vs. ‘Crafty’ Beer Cat Fight
- Carpool Democracy: Malaysians Prepare to Head Home for Landmark Elections
- Exclusive First Listen: Rosanne Cash Records ‘Lonesome River’ to Benefit Hurricane Sandy Victims
- A Year of Photographers in the Picture
- The Business of Creativity: The Chocolate Makers
- A Conversation about Economic Inequality
- Morsi’s Next Move: Egypt’s President Got His Constitution, but Can He Fix the Economy?
- White House Meeting a Last Stab at a Fiscal Deal
- Vietnam’s Blogosphere: The Battleground for Rival Factions of the Ruling Communists
- 5 Ways to Improve Meeting Productivity
- How Nonprofits Convince Millennials to Give: Customize the Cause
- Windows 8: Will Microsoft’s Latest Big Bet Pay Off?
- Fleeing Civil War, Syria’s Kurds Enter Another Geopolitical Minefield
- What You Need to Know About Sugar
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 27: Married to Rocknroll
- What a Park Presidency Means for South Korea’s Foreign Policy
- Kate Winslet Weds Ned RocknRoll, Richard Branson’s Nephew
- Report Finds Small Decline in Food Ads Targeted at Children
- Keep Your Network Active
- Gerry Anderson, ‘Thunderbirds’ Creator, Dies at 83
- In Memoriam: Photographers Who Died in 2012
- Hone Your Leadership Skills
- India: After New Delhi Gang Rape, Should the Culprits Be Executed?
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- 6 Tips For How to Return (Almost) Anything
- WATCH: Tornado Descends on Southern Alabama, Exploding Power Transformers
- Debating the New Environmentalism
- Best Books 2012
- Outrage After New York Paper Posts Map of Gun Owners’ Names and Addresses
- Poll: What Word Should Be Banished in 2013?
- Settlement Tops $1 Billion in Toyota Acceleration Lawsuit
- WATCH: First Dog Bo Steals Show from Michelle Obama’s Holiday Reading
- Today in TIME Tech History: UFO Sightings (1969), the LP Is Dead (1988), Interactive TV (1994) and More
- Unlikely Partners: Grateful Dead Drummer Teams with Scientist to Study How Rhythm Heals
- “Dystextia”: Garbled Text Messages Could Be Sign Of Stroke
- 3-D Printing Has a Bright Future with Dark Problems
- Hagel Still Twisting
- Why Is Turkey’s Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera?
- Rosanne Cash: 'Lonesome River'
- Wednesday’s Political Ledes
- From Pop-Up to Permanent: Five Popular London Restaurants That Are Here to Stay
- HTC One X+ Review: A Phone to Beat (If People Would Buy It)
- Is This The Week We Eat The Most?
- And the Best Movie of 2012 Is …
- With the “Moose Sex Project” Canada Hopes To Make A Moose Love Connection
- Ex-President George H.W. Bush in Intensive Care
- China Opens World’s Longest High-Speed Rail Route
- Fiscal Cliff, Overhyped? Why a January Plunge Might Feel More Like a Slow Slide
- China’s Anti-Corruption Toolkit: No Flowers, Expensive Booze or ‘Empty Talk’
- Don’t Hurt Your Own Cause
- Vacation Robo-Post: The 2012 Cincy Awards
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Four Misconceptions About Taxes and the Deficit
- New Tablet or Smart Phone? Load It Up with These Great Apps
- Motivation, Not IQ, Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills
- Report: Top Syrian General Joins Opposition
- The Secret to the Perfect Christmas Tree? Cloning, Say German Scientists
- WATCH: Festive Puppies Frolic Through Snow
- Bullying over Food Allergies
- Why Hong Kong Is Cleaning Up at Sweden’s Santa Winter Games
- Appreciation: The Odd Couple’s Jack Klugman, an Actor Who Could Crack Wise – with Heart
- Ancient Conehead-Like ‘Alien’ Skulls Unearthed In Mexico
- The Santa Interviewed by Fox & Friends Apparently Belongs on the Naughty List
- Top Grinchiest Stories of the 2012 Holiday Season
- Santa 24/7: Portrait of a Year-Round Father Christmas
- Interview with Official of Jabhat Al-Nusra, Syria’s Islamist Militia Group
- Get Ahead Without the Corporate Ladder
- The DNA Dilemma: A Test That Could Change Your Life
- Stay Classy: Britain’s Newest Scandal Is All About The Country’s Oldest Obsession
- Lionel Messi
- Feeding Frenzy
- Milestones
- Truly Last-Minute Holiday Shopping Options for Deal Hunters – Or the Merely Desperate
- Games
- Sandy Hook: After the Shooting, a Stricken Town Struggles On
- Monday’s Political Ledes
- Briefing
- Google and Bing Launch Competing Online ‘Santa Trackers’
- Books
- Vacation Robo-Post: The Worst TV of 2012
- The New Struggle for the ANC
- Ditching the Chips: Study Finds Kids Give Cheese and Veggies the Thumbs Up
- The Baby Boom and Financial Doom
- Ravi Shankar
- Inbox
- My, Oh Maya
- Smoking: A Drag for Job Applicants?
- Wrapped in Nietzsche and Gun Violence, Will Far Cry 3 Make It Under the Tree for Christmas?
- When CEOs Play Santa
- Big Brothers
- Inbox
- Television
- How Netflix Built Its Wii U App: First, It Built a Fake GamePad
- Parental Guidance: Should Be Rated R for Rotten
- World
- Want to Know My Future?
- 10 Questions for Ian McKellen
- Beauty for the Beasts: 11 Manly Skincare Lines
- Want to Know My Future?
- Jenni Rivera
- Four Typical Holiday Money Fights–And How to Avoid Them
- Assad’s Roll of the Dice: Is Winter Coming for the Syrian Rebellion?
- Diabetes Diet
- TIME’s Best of 2012: The Photobooks We Loved
- Why Does Canada Have a Maple-Syrup Cartel?
- Qatar Is Tiny and Rich, and it's Angling for Influence
- General Disorders
- The Year of the Bad Call
- Ho Ho Hollywood: Celebrities Visit Santa
- Who's Afraid of a Constitution?
- Understanding Why Music Moves Us
- Grass Roots
- The Money Cop
- Want to Know My Future?
- Theater
- Pop Music
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Antarctica: It’s Getting Hot at the Bottom of the Planet
- Why Is Congress Protecting the Gun Industry?
- Movies
- What I Covet: McIntosh McAire Integrated Audio System
- It’s Festivus! Air Your Grievances on the Holiday for the Rest of Us
- The Sunday Shows
- A Hobbit Holiday: Bilbo Beats Babs and Tom
- Sunday’s Political Ledes
- PHOTOS: In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice
- Team Hagel Works Through the Weekend
- Saturday’s Political Ledes
- Sandy Hook Victim Dylan Hockley: A ‘Beautiful Butterfly’ Whose Life Was Cut Short
- Blizzard Barrels Through the Midwest [Photos]
- WATCH: Man Makes Gingerbread Replica of Downton Abbey
- Steve Jobs’ Superyacht Impounded Over Unpaid Bill
- Chinese State-Run Television Airs Anarchist Movie
- Depressing Pie Chart #1
- Creamed by Congress: Farm Bill Inaction May Mean Higher Dairy Prices
- Post Plan B
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 21: Guns Blazing
- Kerry for Secretary of State: Obama Nominates a Seasoned, Willful Diplomat
- Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!?
- Just How Intelligent is the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030?
- The Super-Duper, Planet-Frying, Exploding Star That’s Not Going to Hurt Us, So Please Stop Worrying About It
- NRA Goes on the Record
- Programming Note
- The World Didn’t End, But the U.S.’s Arrogant Disregard for Mexico Should
- When Will Military Kids Matter Enough?
- Friday Flicks: Oscar Contenders, Blockbusters and Comedies Are Released for the Holidays
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