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- Never Mind…
- Depressing Pie Chart #2
- It’s the Holidays. How to Handle the Inevitable Toddler Tantrums
- Friday Flicks: Oscar Contenders, Blockbusters and Comedies Are Released for the Holidays
- Hell Freezes Over
- Friday’s Political Ledes
- Just How Intelligent is the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030?
- Depressing Pie Chart #1
- Post Plan B
- Why the New York Stock Exchange Sold Out to a Upstart You’ve Never Heard Of
- Far Cry 3 Writer Says Critics Got It All Wrong
- Quartet: The Least Exotic Country Retirement Home
- Milk for Kids: 2 Cups a Day, No More and No Less
- Les Misérables Director Tom Hooper on Choosing His Stars and Creating New Songs
- Cartoons of the Week: December 15–21
- Tenacity Trumps Merriment in English Soccer’s Holiday Season
- The World Didn’t End, But the U.S.’s Arrogant Disregard for Mexico Should
- The Super-Duper, Planet-Frying, Exploding Star That’s Not Going to Hurt Us, So Please Stop Worrying About It
- From Boehner to McConnell
- Never Mind…
- John Boehner’s Unhappy Holidays
- Apocalypse Illustrated
- Team Hagel
- Programming Note
- Chinese State-Run Television Airs Anarchist Movie
- The New Louvre Brings Hope to an Ailing Region
- The Timing of the Fiscal Cliff
- Kerry for Secretary of State: Obama Nominates a Seasoned, Willful Diplomat
- Creamed by Congress: Farm Bill Inaction May Mean Higher Dairy Prices
- $9,000 Off? Automakers Ramp Up End-of-Year Incentives to Sell Glut of Pickup Trucks
- NRA Goes on the Record
- Fulghum Finally Finishes
- Today in TIME Tech History: Rube Goldberg (1970), Picture-in-Picture (1987), 96 Megabytes of RAM (1998) and More
- Sandy Hook Shooting: The Speculation About Adam Lanza Must Stop
- Start Persuading Your Audience Before the Presentation
- C’mon Ladies! Let’s Get With the Program!
- When Will Military Kids Matter Enough?
- Happy Holidays! (and Battleland Hiatus)
- Sibling Rivalry: Squabbling May Lead to Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, Among Teens
- Kerry, Absolutely. But What About Hagel?
- The NRA Responds to Newtown: America Needs More ‘Good Guys’ with Guns
- Late-Night Laughs: The 6 Best Comedy Clips of the Week
- Viewpoint: Where Republicans Are Going Wrong On The Fiscal Cliff
- Holiday Foods to Avoid (And What To Eat Instead)
- Egypt’s Referendum: As Second Vote Nears, National Unity Nowhere in Sight
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Air Force Blues
- The NRA Wants More Guns in Schools. Could It Prevent Another Sandy Hook?
- What We Should Be Thinking About Pop-Culture Violence, and What We Will Probably Do Instead
- TIME Explains Dec. 21 and the Mayan apocalypse
- Chicago Inmates Tie Together Bedsheets, Escape Federal Prison
- On the Road: Sex, Drugs and Kristen Stewart
- Biden and Law Enforcement
- Sandy Hook Shooting: Video Games Blamed, Again
- Developing Your Employees
- Run — Don’t Walk — To Read This Wickedly Funny Article About Blurbs!
- 'Santa Claus Special' Train Comes to Appalachia
- Today in TIME Tech History: Sound Recording (1943), Video Recording (1963), Home Broadband (1999) and More
- Look the Other Way, Please: What Are Those Secret Talks in Paris All About?
- America’s Failing Mental Health System: Families Struggle to Find Quality Care
- Oscar Surprise: Why a 5-Year-Old Actress Might Just Win Over the Academy
- Behind the Story: TIME’s Emily Rauhala Discusses South Korea’s First Female President
- Marco Longari: TIME Picks 2012′s Best Photographer on the Wires
- 13 Things We Won’t Miss After the Mayan Apocalypse
- The Obama-Boehner Team
- The End of the World: For the Maya, It May Already Be Here
- Hagelian Dialectic
- End of the World: Here’s the Only Gadget You’ll Need
- Thursday’s Political Ledes
- Procrastinating Holiday Shopper Helper: Last Call for Free Shipping Guaranteed to Arrive Christmas Eve
- Parent Holiday Conundrum: How to Walk the Fine Line Between Treating and Spoiling Your Kids
- Coming in 2013: The Comet of the Century?
- Classic Game Emulators Allowed to Live in the Windows Store (For Now)
- The Impossible: Naomi Watts Keeps This Disaster Film Afloat
- Standing up for Servicewomen
- Schumer on Leg Strat
- Path’s New Search Feature Is a Big Deal
- Obama Interview: His Disastrous First Debate Was a ‘Hawaii Moment’
- Why Walmart Took Over Facebook for 72 Hours
- Young Marines, Learning Important Lessons Early
- LIBOR Scandal: Yep, It’s as Bad as We Thought
- Is Narendra Modi a Step Closer to Being India’s Next Prime Minister?
- Mayan Apocalypse Rumors Prompt 33 Michigan Schools to Close Early
- Unbreathable: Air Pollution Becomes a Major Global Killer
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- A Good Senator Takes His Leave
- The Swiss Difference: A Gun Culture That Works
- 50
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 20: Have a Happy Mayan Apocalypse
- Don’t Grow Your Business Too Fast
- Schumer on Point
- End of the World? Not for the Maya of Belize
- Cliff Notes
- Rockmelt Hits the iPhone: One Small Step for Social Browsing
- The Most Snake-Bitten Franchise In Sports? A Case For The New York Jets
- Why Has Moscow Passed a Bill to Ban U.S. Adoption of Russian Orphans?
- Google Doodle Celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Brothers Grimm
- The Story Behind the Iconic Photograph from Sandy Hook
- “Don’t Drip, Or I’ll Shoot”
- The Teacher as Hero: Mourning Victoria Soto
- A Christmas Story, But Not by Charles Dickens
- Mary Pols’ Top 10 Movies of 2012
- Dead Russian Parliament Member Votes 31 Times
- Lessons from Facebook’s Instagram Photo Flap
- The Year in Connections
- Brutal New Delhi Gang Rape Outrages Indians, Spurs Calls for Action
- Debating a Return to the Draft: With Yourself
- The Cost of Romney’s Government-Assisted Transition: $8.9 Million
- Photos: Miss Universe 2012’s Most Bizarre National Costumes
- President Obama: Person of the Year—and Driller in Chief
- WATCH: Golden Eagle Grabs Baby — Maybe
- How the Best Tech Companies Treat Their Employees
- Zenit’s Nadir: Russian Team’s Fans Call for Whites-Only Policy
- Beware Panic Shopping! How to Make a Last-Minute Gift Count
- The Most Tweeted Photo Ever
- On Foreign Policy, Why Barack is Like Ike
- Take the TIME Person of the Year Quiz!
- 48 Hours with Obama: TIME’s Person of the Year 2012 by Callie Shell
- NASA Never Blinks: Rogue Asteroid Caught On Film
- Four Years of Speeches, One Signature Phrase
- Walk and Don’t Talk: Pedestrians Distracted by Mobile Phones
- Obama’s New Elite Club: Two-Time Persons of the Year
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Meet the Photographer Who Took the First Photos from the Scene of the Newtown Shooting
- CloudOn: Microsoft Office on the iPhone, Right Now
- Create Rituals to Get More Done
- Today in TIME Tech History: 3DO, Left-Handed Gadgets, the Computer ‘Mouse’ and More
- Do We Have Another Financial Bubble On Our Hands? Or Three?
- Has Iran’s Supreme Leader Joined Facebook?
- North Korea Hails TIME #POY Online Poll
- Obama Takes a First Step on Gun Control After Sandy Hook
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 19: Person of the Year
- Odd Couples: 10 Weird Christmas Duets
- “My `Right There’ Is Just a Little Farther Away”
- The Higgs Boson: Particle of the Year
- Is Wall Street Abandoning Gun Manufacturers?
- Zac Posen Will Replace Michael Kors as ‘Project Runway’ Judge
- 2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President
- David Chase’s Not Fade Away: A Musical Memoir from the Sopranos Boss
- The Year in Quotes
- A Sportsman’s Viewpoint: We Need a Moderate Alternative to the NRA
- Dictator’s Daughter Becomes First Female President of South Korea
- The Teddy Awards 2012
- Guilt by Association: Troubling Legacy of Sandy Hook May Be Backlash Against Children with Autism
- Apatow’s This Is 40: Way Too Many Scenes From a Marriage
- Wednesday’s Political Ledes
- Ireland’s Historic Abortion Shift and the Tragedy That Shadowed It
- South Korea Elects First Female President: Park Geun-hye
- The 2012 Teddy Awards for Political Courage
- Statement by White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer on Congressional Republican “Plan B” Legislation
- TIME’s Person of the Year Issue: Cover Gallery
- Obama's Data Team
- Remembering Robert Bork, Failed Supreme Court Nominee, in the Pages of TIME
- It’s The End(s) of The World As We Know It: Did Pop Culture Cause Mayan Apocalypse Panic?
- Setting the Stage for a Second Term
- Bushmaster .223: Weapon Used in Newtown Shooting a Lightning Rod in Gun Debate
- People Who Mattered in 2012
- Dog of War
- Hockey’s Wealth Redistribution Problem: What’s Really Behind The NHL Lockout
- TIME Magazine's Person of the Year: The Choice
- The Hardest Choice: 2012’s Coolest Person of the Year
- TIME Picks the Most Surprising Photos of 2012
- “Anybody Down There?”
- Gas Prices Reach New Lows for 2012 — But They’re Still Pretty Darn High
- Wednesday Words: Slow-Walking, Swole and More
- Happy Hogmanay: Why Glasgow’s a Great Place for New Year
- Why It’s Good That Christmas Cookies Taste So Bad
- Social Reactions to TIME’s Person of the Year
- Behind the Obama Cover: Person of the Year 2012
- The Voice Watch: And the Winner Is…
- Person of the Year
- Hasbro Reveal Plans for Gender Neutral Easy-Bake Oven
- Google Music’s Free Scan and Match Feature Comes to the U.S.
- Smiling in the Face of Indictment, Lieberman Steps Down as Israel’s Foreign Minister
- G Is for Grief: 1983 Sesame Street Episode Helps Kids Cope After Newtown Tragedy
- Want to be the Next Military Spouse of the Year?
- Why Santa Claus Is a No-Show at Many Malls This Year
- Cliff Diving
- A Bunch of Tech Things People Have Threatened to Quit Recently
- Why Pippa Middleton Would (and Would Not) Make a Good ‘Today’ Correspondent
- McDonald’s for Christmas? Burger Chain Asks Franchisees to Make It Business As Usual
- D.O.M., São Paulo: Something Wild and Wonderful Beats in Brazil’s Business Heart
- TIME Reveals Its Short List for Person of the Year 2012
- Man Attempts 3 Unsuccessful Carjackings in Same Parking Lot
- Anonymous Targets Westboro Baptist Church Over Newtown Picket Plans
- 3 Approaches to Curbing Gun Violence — Using Economics
- Aspirin Linked to Rare Form of Vision Loss
- 9 Best Music Videos of 2012
- Twilight’s Last Gleaming
- Why Free Shipping Is Almost Universal — And Why You Should Be Wary of It
- Mali’s Crisis: Is the Plan for Western Intervention ‘Crap’?
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Far Cry 3 Review: Entertainment for a Price
- TIME Picks the Top Photographic Magazine Covers of 2012
- 21st Century Military Pillboxes
- U.S. Marine Makes First Ever Same-Sex Marriage Proposal in the White House
- The Real Gun Violence Discussion
- The Myth of Second Amendment Exceptionalism
- ‘Ecce Homo’ Returns: Notably Terrible Art Restorer Now Selling Her Work on eBay
- Will Google Escape a Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Over Web Search?
- 2012: A Year of Deja Vu
- The Burden of History: A Divided South Korea Heads to the Polls
- Today in TIME Tech History: No Stopping Napster, ‘Name Caller’ Phone Dialer, Stair Climbers and More
- A Three-Mile-Long Asteroid Buzzes the Earth
- America’s Gun Economy, By the Numbers
- Journalists at Risk: How an NBC Correspondent Emerged from Syrian Captivity
- The Most Health Conscious Cities In America
- Will Kurdistan’s Energy Wealth Lead to the Next Iraq War?
- Winklevoss Twins Enter Fashion Tech World with Hukkster Investment
- 2nd Lieutenant Danny Inouye, 1924-2012
- Take More Vacation
- Sound the Klaxon: Aah-Ooo-Gah!
- WATCH: 300 Movies in 7 Minutes: The Ultimate 2012 Supercut
- Amour: A Love Story for the Aged
- China Not Ready for Warhol’s Iconic Mao Portraits
- Unfiltered: Photographers React to Instagram’s New Terms
- As Cliff Deal Takes Shape, Congressional Leaders Prepare for a Tough Sell
- The World’s Biggest Hobbit: Why Peter Jackson Should Not Have Supersized Bilbo
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 18: Sadness and Anger
- Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing
- Carry On Regardless in South Africa, as ANC Re-elects Zuma
- Don’t Ignore Old-fashioned Offline Promotion
- Tuesday’s Political Ledes
- School Security: Why It’s So Hard to Keep Kids Safe
- Anthropocene: Do We Need a New Environmentalism for a New Age?
- Romeo Beckham: The Latest Celebrity Kid with a Fashion Campaign
- TLC Delays Best Funeral Ever Special after Newtown Shootings
- The Guilt Trip: The Return of the Funny Lady
- A Cure For Jeremy Lin’s Woes? A Trip To New York
- A Glimmer of Good Gun News, for a Change
- Newtown School Shooting: The World Reacts
- Will Japan’s New Prime Minister Start a Debt Crisis?
- Family Photos: Obama Meets with Relatives of Newtown Victims
- 7 Ways Taxpayers are Readying for Fiscal Cliff
- Predatory Pricing?
- 10 Great Deals That Show ‘Free Shipping Day’ Can Be Worthwhile
- Lousy Monday Morning…
- Experts Argue to Keep Thimerosal in Some Vaccines
- Tiny Beauties: Visions From Under the Microscope
- ‘I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother’: When Parents Are Afraid of Their Children
- The Re-Making of Newtown: Will Tragedy Make It Stronger?
- Viewpoint: If We Want Gun Control, We’ll Need to Compromise
- Too European To Fail? New E.U. Banking Safety Net Takes Shape
- Pop Chart
- New York Giant Victor Cruz Pays Tribute to Jack Pinto, 6-Year-Old Newtown Victim
- Inbox
- U.S.S. Enterprise
- Homeland Watch: Into the Woods
- Today in TIME Tech History: Steam vs. Electricity, Artificial Heart, How ‘Television’ Might Catch On and More
- A New Leash on Infections: Dog That Sniffs Out a Deadly Superbug
- A Tragedy Like Newtown Should Be Politicized, But Changing Anything Will Take Different Politicians
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