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October 2011
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- October 31st
- Can In Living Color make a comeback?
- Teachers' bonuses: Should parental engagement be a factor?
- Titanic in 3D: Why it 'truly impresses'
- Will Steven Spielberg's Tintin 'save motion-capture animation'?
- The 'miracle dog' that survived the gas chamber
- A sister's 'heart-wrenching' eulogy for Steve Jobs
- The 'alarming' robotic Venus flytrap
- Do kids learn more without computers?
- Snake blood: The key to strengthening human hearts?
- October 28th
- In Time: 'Philip K. Dick for knuckleheads'?
- The NCAA's 'sweeping reform' of college sports
- Rangers-Cardinals Game 6: 'The greatest World Series game ever'?
- Speech patterns: 5 ways to spot a psychopath
- Microsoft's 'astounding' vision of the future
- The week’s other openings
- Way to Heaven
- The Mountaintop
- What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
- The 'bright and bubbly' Lorax trailer: 7 talking points
- Novel of the week: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Book of the week: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Taxing the rich: A guide to the controversy
- Buying a personalized coffin in Africa
- Gossip: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
- Chris Matthews' 6 favorite JFK reads
- Gossip: Madonna
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan
- Kirsten Dunst’s battle with depression
- The man with a feminine soul
- Jeff Koons’s broken family
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The giant Lego man that washed ashore in Florida
- Paranormal Activity 3
- Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Margin Call
- Viewpoint: James Surowiecki
- Why we need the Volcker rule
- The dark art of tax dodging
- China confronts competition
- Spotlight
- How Nokia can make a comeback in the U.S.: 7 theories
- Should the Girl Scouts accept transgendered kids?
- The Week contest: McDonald's Show
- October 27th
- For those who have everything: Fred
- The best apps for runners
- Tip of the week: How to avoid debit card fees
- Ruth Madoff's 'surprising' suicide confession: Why now?
- The best...leaf-management tools
- The 2012 Chevrolet Sonic
- The bottom line
- Hailing a cab for seven figures
- The news at a glance
- Issue of the week: Groupon’s next act
- Charity of the week: Vital Voices Global Partnership
- What the experts say
- Holiday controversy: Does Halloween have to fall on Oct. 31?
- Best properties on the market
- The $26,364 threshold, and more
- 7 billion: Can the population keep growing?
- Siri: Artificial intelligence becomes more human
- Rubio: A challenge to his life story
- Earth's 7-billion population milestone: By the numbers
- Wit & Wisdom
- Australia: We need peace between the U.S. and China
- Qatar: Arab tyranny, brought to you by the West
- Spain: Is Basque terrorism really history?
- United Kingdom: A nation obsessed with death
- France: An Italian name for a Sarkozy baby
- Taxi driver agrees to be mummified, and more
- The 'bionic' man with a smartphone dock in his arm
- Not everyone belongs in college
- Dehumanizing Hispanics as ‘illegals’
- Libya’s lesson for North Korea
- Good week, Bad week
- Lobbyists descend on ‘supercommittee’
- Grinnell's gender-neutral locker rooms, and more
- Iraq: Is it a mistake to bring home U.S. troops?
- Editor's Letter: Eyeing the populist storms
- The fight for the euro
- Mouth-to-nose resuscitation saves a Labrador, and more
- America's $5 billion zombie industry: By the numbers
- A liberated Libya celebrates Qaddafi’s death
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...Europe
- Health breakthrough: 'Super broccoli'?
- The week at a glance...United States
- Last-minute travel deals
- Hotel of the week: Historic Park Inn, Mason City, Iowa
- Getting the flavor of...A bike trek’s unexpected climax
- This week’s travel dream: Costa Rica’s untamed peninsula
- Wine: Feels like red season
- Armenian in L.A.: The pleasures of a nomadic cuisine
- Delicata: An eye-catcher among winter squashes
- Where to buy...Lance Letscher
- Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
- The dollar bill: R.I.P.?
- Exhibit of the week: Degas and the Nude
- Health scare of the week: Germ-bearing cell phones
- Health & Science
- Show of the week: Masterpiece: Page Eight
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Jerzy Bielecki, 1921–2011
- Muammar al-Qaddafi, 1942–2011
- Author of the week: Art Spiegelman
- Also of interest...in global affairs
- Time to vaccinate kids for anthrax?
- Should the U.S. start slaughtering horses again?
- October 26th
- How Amy Winehouse died: An instant guide
- Joss Whedon's secret Shakespeare film: An instant guide
- Coming soon: Caffeine you can inhale?
- The controversial HPV vaccine: Now for boys?
- Amazon's plunging profits: 3 explanations
- Japan's 'massive' wave of tsunami debris
- Saturday Night Live's 'painfully accurate' Steve Jobs sketch
- Hacker group Anonymous' new target: Child pornography websites
- Going outside: The key to better eyesight?
- October 25th
- The 100-year-old marathoner snubbed by Guinness World Records
- Why it's time to stop hating Coldplay
- The 'hilarious' TSA note about a woman's vibrator
- The booming TV commercial business: By the numbers
- The 'terrified' grandma busted by NASA for selling a moon rock
- Steve Jobs' memorial service: 6 highlights
- Is the 'broke' WikiLeaks worth saving?
- The 'magic' gel that slashes a woman's risk of HIV and herpes
- October 24th
- The cell phone-cancer link: A myth?
- The Office hires Catherine Tate: Good move?
- Is the Milky Way a galaxy killer?
- Being Elmo: 5 revelations about Sesame Street's star
- Paranormal Activity 3's record-setting box office: 3 theories
- Tim Burton's 'creepy' Thanksgiving Day Parade float
- Is Ashton Kutcher to blame for Two and a Half Men's ratings drop?
- Where are Moammar Gadhafi's billions?
- WireDoo: MC Hammer's 'bold' new search engine
- October 21st
- Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene: An 'alarming' achievement
- Can Facebook lower unemployment?
- 72 years together: The couple who died holding hands
- The Gadhafi death images: Too graphic?
- Gossip: Steven Seagal
- Gossip: Beyoncé
- Gossip: Lady Gaga, Bill Clinton
- Gossip: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lopez
- What's next for Libya: 4 theories
- Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label by Bill Adler and Dan Charnas
- Is Rihanna's 'gritty' new music video about Chris Brown?
- The 'amazing' 'throwable panoramic ball camera'
- The death penalty in decline
- Novel of the week: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
- Do unhealthy foods need warning labels?
- Chris Bohjalian's 6 favorite books about plane crashes
- Rin Tin Tin Reborn
- Book of the week: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- Nicki Minaj’s fantasy world
- A century of war reporting
- Hugh Jackman’s second chance
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The Big Year
- Footloose
- The Skin I Live In
- Viewpoint: Noreen Malone
- Hold the line on insider trading
- How to fix the housing mess
- Why there won’t be a double dip
- The bottom line
- McDonald’s adds TV to its menu
- The war in Libya is still a failure
- The 'self-made' billionaire who wants to mine the moon
- We're in the euro now
- The Week contest: Apple Product - October 28, 2011
- Dropbox: The $4 billion company that said no to Steve Jobs
- October 20th
- The news at a glance
- Warren Buffett and Jay-Z's 'awesomely dorky' financial literacy cartoon
- For those who have everything: Light-Light
- Best apps for pet owners
- Tip of the week: How to buy a men’s suit
- Mylo Xyloto: Coldplay's 'best album yet'?
- The best...body monitors
- The 2012 Hyundai Veloster
- Spotlight
- Charity of the week: Shoes That Fit
- What the experts say
- Best properties on the market
- Fauja Singh, age 100, runs a marathon, and more
- Iran: Is the U.S. headed for another war?
- Should River Phoenix's last film finally be released?
- 9-9-9: How Cain’s tax plan would work
- The ‘99 percent’ movement: Will it matter?
- Wit & Wisdom
- Concocting an Iranian plot
- How Gadhafi was killed: What we know
- Canada: A court that treats us like children
- Mexico: Is America going to go fascist?
- Italy: An ‘Occupy’ movement turns bloody
- Austria: Where child abusers go free
- The 'gruesome' case of the Chinese toddler left for dead
- United Kingdom: Is the 'boob tax' sexist?
- Tracking the abominable snowman, and more
- Viewpoint: George Packer
- America, the chosen nation
- Will MIT’s 'x-ray vision' help soldiers see through walls?
- No spring for Egypt’s Christians
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...Europe
- The week at a glance...United States
- U.S. deportations reach all time high
- Good week, Bad week
- Champion goat fails a drug test, and more
- Disneyland's lead poisoning scandal
- Does Facebook make your brain bigger?
- Editor's Letter: A walk through Zuccotti Park
- Obama amends health plan
- Korean War veteran wins a Purple Heart, and more
- Israel trades 1,000 prisoners for one soldier
- Last-minute travel deals
- Hotel of the week: The Residence Zanzibar, Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
- Getting the flavor of...A high-wire act in Canada
- Travel dream of the week: France’s oyster region
- Feist: Metals
- Björk: Biophilia
- Moammar Gadhafi reported dead: First reactions
- Various Artists: The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
- Exhibit of the week: Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India 1100–1900
- Recipe of the week: Carnitas braised in wheat beer
- Ohio zoo escape: Should authorities have shot the animals?
- Riesling: Finally appreciated
- Critics’ choice: Simple foods from top chefs
- Show of the week: Boss
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Health scare of the week: The downside of multivitamins
- Health & Science
- Laura Pollán Toledo, 1948–2011
- Franklin Kameny, 1925–2011
- Sue Mengers, 1932–2011
- Author of the week: Michael Lewis
- Also of interest...in lives on stage and screen
- Would Zombieland work as a TV show?
- The British taxi driver who chose to be mummified
- October 19th
- The 2011 World Series: 5 talking points
- The American Dream moves to Denmark
- The strip-search scandal at the Scrabble world championship
- Britney Spears' 'Criminal' music video: Too steamy?
- Will 'quantum levitation' help us build hoverboards?
- Should Hollywood make more Transformers films without Shia LaBeouf?
- Will TV 'rot your baby's brain'?
- 'Drunkorexia': A 'disturbing' new trend?
- Do mp3 players 'shrink' our concept of personal space?
- October 18th
- America's 'shameful' child abuse problem: 5 theories
- The FCC's 'win-win' deal on cell phone 'bill shock'
- Was Vincent van Gogh murdered?
- Can stress determine your baby's gender?
- Did a massive comet almost wipe out humans in 1883?
- McDonald's new TV channel: The wisecracks
- The comeback of the sitcom: 6 theories
- America's wild horse conundrum: By the numbers
- October 17th
- Dan Wheldon's death: Is IndyCar racing too dangerous?
- Can a computer program reveal the Bible's ghostwriters?
- Are fat women still funny?
- Will climate change turn Starbucks into a juice bar?
- The death of the American chain restaurant
- Did our ancestors speak like Yoda?
- Breast cancer and 'the pinking of America': By the numbers
- The 'mysterious' disease killing Alaskan seals
- Why Apple isn't offering Siri for older iPhones: 3 theories
- The rise of the 'showrunner'
- New ADHD guidelines: Should Ritalin be prescribed to 4-year-olds?
- October 14th
- Can expanding abroad save the Gap?
- The Footloose remake: A pleasant surprise?
- Planting drugs on innocent people: NYPD's 'shocking' scandal
- Could Mount Everest be the future of solar power?
- Should Family Guy end its run?
- Discovered: The even 'plumper' T. Rex
- Lucette Lagnado's 6 favorite books
- Barbie's 'funky' new tattoo
- Lucette Lagnado's 6 favorite books
- The cost of the NBA lockout: By the numbers
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
- Novel of the week: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Book of the week: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- When dreams kill: The phenomenon of sleep paralysis
- The military's eyebrow-shaping craze: The wisecracks
- The week’s other openings
- The Burial at Thebes
- The Submission
- For those who have everything: Gibson’s Firebird X
- Cleaning up the trash in space
- Best websites for tracking fall foliage
- Tip of the week: How to tame a control-freak boss
- The best...spooky dinner-table decor
- The 2011 Bentley Mulsanne
- Viewpoint: Devin Leonard and Romesh Ratnesar
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Can 'mind-blowing sex' cause amnesia?
- The Week contest: Wedding Wishes - October 21, 2011
- October 13th
- Issue of the week: Has innovation dried up?
- Charity of the week: Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation
- What the experts say
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- Blackthorn
- The Way
- The Ides of March
- Gossip: Tilda Swinton
- Gossip: Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly
- Gossip: Paul McCartney, Nancy Shevell
- Ewan McGregor’s naked ambition
- Maurice Sendak: A miserable wild thing
- Courtney Love’s losses
- Best properties on the market
- Die Hard 5: Any life left in the franchise?
- Wit & Wisdom
- Afghanistan: Ten years later
- The nude-celebrity hacking scandal: An instant guide
- Steve Jobs: Does he deserve all the adulation?
- Egypt: Coptic Christians under attack
- Europe’s banking crisis: Is the rescue too late?
- From ashes to ammunition, and more
- 'America's tutor boom': By the numbers
- Why would scientists re-create the black plague?
- Feeling free to hate Mormons
- Good week, Bad week
- Drive movie trailer sparks a lawsuit, and more
- An Iranian terror plot?
- ‘Go pregnant lady!’ and more
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Europe
- The week at a glance...U.S.
- Last-minute travel deals
- Getting the flavor of...Off-season Saratoga, N.Y.
- This week’s travel dream: Four days in Homer’s Greece
- Show of the week: Sin by Silence
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- The family that got lost in a corn maze... and dialed 911
- Peanut butter’s 'scary,' skyrocketing prices: By the numbers
- The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg
- Exhibit of the week: California Design, 1930–1965: ‘Living in a Modern Way’
- Health & Science
- Al Davis, 1929–2011
- Steve Jobs, 1955–2011
- Boston’s Italian side: Arrivederci, Puritanism!
- Classic wine blends
- Recipe of the week: Duck steak au poivre: A flavorful tribute to Old Montreal
- Author of the week: John Paul Stevens
- Also of interest...in letters, journals, and sketchbooks
- A strange, bone-filled lair: Proof the kraken existed?
- October 12th
- The iPhone 4S: Is Siri a 'life changer'?
- Lifetime's all-black remake of Steel Magnolias: Good idea?
- Did Beyonce plagiarize her 'Countdown' music video?
- The 'painful' deal to free Israel's Gilad Shalit: Winners and losers
- Can Nike conquer China?
- The Atlantic's 'Single Ladies' cover story: 6 takeaways
- The Avengers trailer: 5 talking points
- How the iPhone 4S went from disappointment to smash: 5 theories
- Will Björk's new iPad album 'save the music industry'?
- Switched-at-birth 12-year-olds: Russia's 'shocking' scandal
- October 11th
- A hyper-realistic, $4,000 face mask: Deeply disturbing?
- Wall Street's job 'slashing': By the numbers
- Steve Jobs' 'uncomfortable' off-Broadway debut
- A new use for Facebook: Identifying problem drinkers?
- The 'clueless' NBA lockout: Winners and losers
- Cutting aid to 'anti-gay' nations: Britain's 'bold and necessary' plan
- The Rosie Show: Rosie O'Donnell's 'promising' new talk show debut
- Greece's austerity-driven health crisis
- The 'nasty' computer virus infecting U.S. military drones
- Dr Pepper's 'not for women' ad campaign: Sexist?
- How Justin Bieber's haircut cost one toy maker $100,000
- The woman suing Drive for its lack of driving: The wisecracks
- October 10th
- 'Text neck': A 'global epidemic'?
- Netflix's Qwikster debacle: Can the damage be undone?
- The record-setting iPhone 4S sellout: By the numbers
- Prostate cancer: Should healthy men really stop getting tested?
- The Simpsons' two-season extension: 'Woo-hoo'?
- The 'explosive' Breaking Bad season finale
- The hunt for the 'God Particle': Will we ever find it?
- Why the U.S. was better off in the Great Depression
- The welcome decline of the German shepherd
- Is Mark Zuckerberg the next Steve Jobs?
- An anti-miscarriage drug's 'disastrous' effect?
- Is the elusive 'triple rainbow' scientifically possible?
- October 7th
- 7 little-known facts about Steve Jobs
- Which politician inspired Ides of March?
- Steve Jobs' death: Is the world overreacting?
- The 'fantastical' exoskeleton that could help patients walk again
- The world university rankings: 5 takeaways
- Real Steel: Finally, a robot boxing movie for girls?
- Ernest Cline's 6 favorite books
- The Magicians: Will 'Harry Potter with sex and drugs' work on TV?
- Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
- Talking to Koko the gorilla
- India's fed-up middle class
- Book of the week: Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 by Paul Hendrickson
- For those who have everything: The Dyson Hot
- Legalizing domestic violence: Topeka's 'terrible' plan to save money
- Best websites to help manage your money
- Tip of the week: How to run a meeting
- The best...coffee equipment
- The 2011 BMW 1-Series M
- Ernest Cline's 6 favorite books
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- Dream House
- Can Apple innovate without Steve Jobs?
- Take Shelter
- The news at a glance
- Preventing gray hair... with a pill?
- The Week contest: Fired Cards - October 14, 2011
- October 6th
- Issue of the week: Bank fees for using debit cards
- Was Steve Jobs a good, old-fashioned 'capitalist'?
- Charity of the week: City Year
- What the experts say
- Gossip: Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed
- Gossip: Martha Stewart, Alexis Stewart
- Gossip: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore
- Jane Lynch’s years of struggle
- The accidental drug designer
- Sly Stone’s hard fall
- Best properties on the market
- 'The Mommy Tummy': The 'bizarre' pregnancy simulator for men
- Anna Bolena
- Did Bob Dylan deserve the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- The economy: Why there’s no recovery
- Bob Dylan: When art is imitation
- Wit & Wisdom
- Assassinating Awlaki
- The 'record-breaking' response to Steve Jobs' death: By the numbers
- Amanda Knox: Italian justice or injustice?
- Why gay men don't get job interviews
- Exploding toilets injure federal worker, and more
- Will the NBA season be canceled?
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...Europe
- Good week, Bad week
- Why is Germany hunting Nazis again?
- TSA overreaches with a cancer patient, and more
- Editor's Letter: Doing damage control
- Foodbank receives apples galore, and more
- A warning to China
- The 'exotic' viruses that live in your sewage
- Christie opts out
- Awlaki eliminated by a U.S. drone
- 'Luke, I am your father:' One boy's 'priceless' reaction
- The week at a glance...United States
- Show of the week: Women, War & Peace
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Getting the flavor of...A touch of California in Iowa
- Dream of the week: Rebirth in Rio de Janeiro
- Recipe of the week: Mussels Manhattan
- Black IPA: A growing dark art
- Critics’ choice: Street vendors too good to stay outdoors
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
- Exhibit of the week: Warhol on the Mall
- Health & Science
- A surprising threat to Einstein’s theory
- Roger Kennedy, 1926–2011
- Wilson Greatbatch, 1919–2011
- Sylvia Robinson, 1936–2011
- Author of the week: Paulo Coelho
- The visionary life of Steve Jobs: The most moving tributes
- Also of interest...new work from old literary favorites
- Can a $35 tablet help India's poor?
- October 5th
- The Playboy Club cancellation: What TV show is next?
- Dogs: The key wedge issue in San Francisco's mayoral election?
- An 'alarming quandary': The birth control that doubles HIV risk
- Denmark’s fat tax: Could it happen in the U.S.?
- Apple unveils the iPhone 4S: Winners and losers
- What's next for Amanda Knox: 6 theories
- Why more parents are rejecting vaccinations: 4 theories
- Is The Simpsons getting canceled?
- October 4th
- The auto industry's 'surprisingly' good September: 6 theories
- The Amanda Knox verdict: 5 lessons
- How did the Nobel Prize get awarded to a dead scientist?
- The TV commercial that targets your dog
- Should Madonna play the Super Bowl halftime show?
- A real flying carpet?
- The Koch brothers 'bombshell': Bribes, crimes, and illegal trade with Iran?
- America's blue-collar smoking trend: By the numbers
- October 3rd
- Homeland: The 'next great cable drama'?
- Should nurses be called 'doctor'?
- Will robots steal white-collar jobs next?
- Temporary marriages: The 'radical' way to lower divorce rates
- The rise and fall of Kodak: By the numbers
- Arrested Development's 'joyous' return: Will it really happen this time?
- ADHD: Are we over-drugging our kids?
- 'Educational theft': Another sign of our failing schools
- Melissa McCarthy's 'fearless' Saturday Night Live hosting stint
- Can dogs reduce bullying in schools?
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