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May 2012
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- May 31st
- Bath salts: The quasi-legal drug allegedly behind Miami's cannibal attack
- The 6-year-old spelling bee contestant's heartbreaking elimination
- Good day, bad day: May 31, 2012
- New York's proposed Big Gulp ban: Has Bloomberg gone too far?
- The website that foils politicians who (try to) delete their tweets
- Eugene Polley, 1915–2012
- Can three-year degrees help Americans afford college?
- Gunnar Sonsteby, 1918–2012
- Paul Fussell, 1924–2012
- Not everyone benefits from college
- Charity of the week: Center for Great Apes
- What the experts say
- Issue of the week: What a ‘Grexit’ would bring
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- How TV lowers self-esteem in kids... except for white boys
- The supersonic skydiver
- Cole’s redheaded pride
- Dinklage’s stand against heightism
- Hunger Games: Who should be cast as Finnick?
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Europe
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Fox News' anti-Obama 'attack ad': Has Fox finally crossed the line?
- The week at a glance...United States
- Indian tribe told to rename sports team, and more
- Good week, Bad week
- The stray dog that finished a 1,100-mile race across China
- Editor's letter: Facebook and the digital future
- Waiter receives $5000 tip, and more
- Mounting pressure on Assad after Syria massacre
- For those who have everything: Sony SmartWatch
- Best apps for smoothing your road trips
- Tip of the week: How to use sunscreen correctly
- The best...Father’s Day gifts
- The 2012 Hyundai Azera: What the critics say
- Best properties on the market
- Does working the night shift cause breast cancer?
- The video games you play with your mind
- The Week contest - Clock phrases
- May 30th
- The tiny snakebots that perform heart surgery
- Getting the flavor of...Texas’s Louisiana neighbors
- This week’s travel dream: France’s land of libation
- Wine: Surprising Greek reds
- NuLu: A new and happening Louisville
- Watermelon: Fresh ideas for an American summer staple
- Show of the week: Push Girls
- Movies on TV
- Good day, bad day: May 30, 2012
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- Oslo, August 31st
- The Intouchables
- Men in Black 3
- The powerful Les Miserables trailer: 4 talking points
- ‘Cockfight Play’
- Exhibits of the week: Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads and Fragments
- Are C-section babies more prone to childhood obesity?
- New Work: Katharina Wulff
- Author of the week: Jay McInerney
- Also of interest…in American originals
- Lifetime vs. NBC: Battle of the Silence of the Lambs spin-offs
- Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky
- Prince William and Harry's revealing Katie Couric interview: 4 takeaways
- Book of the week: What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel
- Health & Science
- 5 reasons Facebook's stock is still tanking
- Wit & Wisdom
- Abortion: The coming pro-life majority?
- Newspapers: A sad milestone in New Orleans
- Should rich kids be ineligible for college scholarships?
- ‘Obamacare’: Lobbying the Supreme Court
- Men: The threat of ‘technology enchantment’
- America’s disrespect for Pakistan
- Holy See: Cardinals turn on one another
- Cows crash a backyard party, and more
- Will consumers switch from plastic to PayPal?
- May 29th
- The nasty germs lurking in public pools
- Good day, bad day: May 29, 2012
- The 'Divorce Hotel': Will it speed up messy splits?
- Hemingway & Gellhorn: A star-studded letdown?
- Spain's looming $24 billion bank bailout: 5 takeaways
- Memorial Day weekend box office: Winners and losers
- 5 reasons Facebook should build its own phone
- Could humans one day communicate with dolphins?
- May 28th
- May 25th
- Republicans and the military: No longer BFFs?
- Good day, bad day: May 25, 2012
- The coming glut of American Idol ripoffs: A guide
- Four ways Apple has changed under Tim Cook
- Steve Guttenberg's 6 favorite books
- Steve Guttenberg's 6 favorite books
- 6 photos that Facebook controversially banned
- The trolls of the internet: A guide
- Gossip: Will Smith
- The 5 best 50 Shades of Grey parodies: A video roundup
- Repairing a broken heart... with skin
- May 24th
- Gossip: John Travolta
- Gossip: Mark Zuckerberg
- Can Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo conquer America?
- Gay celebrities and the decline of the 'mega-outing'
- Good day, bad day: May 24, 2012
- Have the cops finally caught Etan Patz's killer?
- The 10 weirdest new species of 2012
- Robin Gibb, 1949–2012
- Donna Summer, 1948–2012
- Fast lane for world’s middle class
- Charity of the week: The Posse Foundation
- What the experts say
- Issue of the week: Why Facebook’s IPO fizzled
- Hewlett-Packard's 27,000 layoffs: Are they actually good news?
- Opera’s fat lady slims
- Jones’s resilient marriage
- Delpy’s problem parents
- The polarizing The Great Gatsby trailer: 6 talking points
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- Too hot for a lingerie company, and more
- Good week, Bad week
- Editor's letter: Plain speech from Congress
- Webcam spy sentenced
- Bishops sue over birth control
- Classmates make up with bullying victim, and more
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- The Week contest - Obvious studies
- May 23rd
- When a puppy falls from the sky, and more
- For those who have everything: Qlocktwo
- Best apps for reducing your phone’s battery use
- Tip of the week: How to talk with a spouse about money
- The Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG: What the critics say
- Why we should be thrilled by NATO's lack of action
- The best…grill accessories
- Best properties on the market
- Good day, bad day: May 23, 2012
- Getting the flavor of...Florida’s island with no name
- This week’s travel dream: Beautiful, moody Budapest
- Facebook's botched IPO: Winners and losers
- Rosé: A few ‘serious’ choices
- Recipe of the week: Farro pasta with nettles and sausage
- Critics’ choice: Rediscovering the sea, with a new generation
- The genetic mystery behind dog DNA
- Timon of Athens
- The future of Big Tobacco: Tobacco-free products?
- Hands on a Hardbody
- Show of the week: Independent Lens: Hell and Back Again
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The latest outrage-inducing airline fee: $25 for a window seat?
- Polisse
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong
- Exhibit of the week: The Barnes Foundation
- Author of the week: Loretta Lynn
- Also of interest…in pictures worth 1,000 words
- The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman
- Book of the week: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Zimmerman: Should charges be dropped?
- Leap: Control your computer with Minority Report-style gestures
- SceneTap: The creepy app that scans bar-goers' faces
- May 22nd
- Who's to blame for Facebook's stock debacle?
- SpaceX's successful launch: 4 predictions for what's next
- Good day, bad day: May 22, 2012
- Is Iran finally backing down?
- Discovered: Facebook... for cavemen?
- Why a Chinese company is buying AMC movie theaters
- The sleep mask that helps you control your dreams
- The 'gorgeous and brutal' 007 Skyfall trailer: 4 talking points
- Juicebox-shaped fruit: Best ad campaign ever?
- 'Celebrate': Whitney Houston's inspirational last song
- Hulu's promising summer TV season: 5 highlights
- How to wean America from its dangerous food addiction
- The deadly odds of climbing Mount Everest: By the numbers
- The 7 dumbest reasons schoolkids get suspended
- May 21st
- Facebook's underwhelming IPO: Proof the stock was overhyped?
- So.cl: A guide to Microsoft's confusing new social network
- SpaceX's historic launch: By the numbers
- Good day, bad day: May 21, 2012
- Stay-at-home moms: More vulnerable to depression than working moms?
- Does eating organic food make you a jerk?
- Why Battleship flopped: 5 theories
- The jail where every prisoner gets a flat-screen TV and private shower
- Discovered: The ancient turtle as big as a car
- SNL's emotional season finale: Mick Jagger hosts, Kristen Wiig says goodbye, and more
- Honda's Segway alternative... that you steer with your butt
- May 18th
- The South's flesh-eating bacteria scare: A concise guide
- Good day, bad day: May 18, 2012
- The historic growth in non-white births: 4 consequences
- Can Pinterest turn its popularity into profits?
- Facebook's historic IPO: By the numbers
- What to Expect When You're Expecting: Which cast members escape unscathed?
- Can you trademark your baby's name?
- A day in the life of a warehouse wage slave
- Sissy Spacek's 6 favorite books
- Glenn Beck after Fox: More powerful than ever?
- May 17th
- Donna Summer's most memorable songs: A video timeline
- The longest hockey game, and more
- Gossip: Reese Witherspoon
- Gossip: John Travolta
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan, Samantha Ronson
- Good day, bad day: May 17, 2012
- The cancer-stricken 9-year-old who is choosing to die
- Google's overhaul: A more human-like search?
- Is there anything good about Battleship?
- Is JC Penney imploding?
- The suspension of Ratko Mladic's war-crimes trial: A concise guide
- Charity of the week: Concerns of Police Survivors
- What the experts say
- Issue of the week: The fall of a legal titan
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Bank panic in Greece: What happens if Greeks quit the euro?
- The week at a glance...International
- TV's 5 most promising fall shows: A video roundup
- The news at a glance...Europe
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- 'Smartphone Face': Is your cell phone making your face sag?
- Good week, Bad week
- Pet custody battle costs life savings, and more
- The new book that claims to unmask the Zodiac Killer: 6 takeaways
- Editor's letter: What's in a name?
- JPMorgan’s losses renew calls for reform
- 10 disgusting objects allegedly found in fast food
- Has mankind outgrown Earth?
- The Week contest - Outdated theses
- May 16th
- The man who guarded the Rock
- Patti Smith’s old-fashioned parenting
- Greg Allman’s brotherly love
- Carroll Shelby, 1923–2012
- Vidal Sassoon, 1928–2012
- For those who have everything: CliC Gold Sport
- Best apps: For storing cellphone conversations
- Tip of the week: How to get perfect eyebrows
- The best…cheap thrills
- The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu: What the critics say
- Best properties on the market
- The experimental drug that could prevent Alzheimer's: A guide
- America's increasing support for Syria's rebels: 5 takeaways
- Getting the flavor of...The East End: London’s creative hub
- Good day, bad day: May 16, 2012
- This week’s travel dream: London during the Olympics
- Coming soon: An over-the-counter HIV test?
- Wineries worth a pilgrimage
- The new butchers: A Southern revival
- Rhubarb: Much more than a seasonal pie filler
- Show of the week: Civilization: The West and the Rest With Niall Ferguson
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Lightning strikes the new French president's plane... and 4 other bad political omens
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- I Wish
- Dark Shadows
- The Dictator
- The Iceman Cometh
- Lonely, I’m Not
- Should kindergarteners be allowed to evaluate teachers?
- Exhibit of the week: Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
- Author of the week: Florence Williams
- Also of interest...in new works from old favorites
- Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
- Book of the week: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- The Carlos DeLuna case: Definitive proof that Texas executed an innocent man?
- Obesity: Why Americans keep expanding
- The $60,000 custody battle... over a dog
- Journey of Jesus: The world's first Christ-centric video game?
- Israel: Is Netanyahu moving toward the center?
- Texas teen holds up a police station, and more
- May 15th
- The Pebble smartwatch: Kickstarter's record-shattering $10 million project
- The 8 craziest prom stories of 2012
- Good day, bad day: May 15, 2012
- Will John Travolta's sex scandal hurt his career?
- Did JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon break the law?
- Is Johnny Depp's popularity waning?
- People who cross the street while texting: Should they be fined?
- Apple's next MacBook Pro: 4 rumors
- California's financial apocalypse: A concise guide
- The biggest wave ever surfed: The mind-blowing video
- May 14th
- New Jersey's 'reveal a secret' third-grade test question: The fallout
- The New York Times' Mark Zuckerberg profile: 4 intriguing revelations
- Good day, bad day: May 14, 2012
- The billion-dollar movie club: By the numbers
- Desperate Housewives' sentimental finale: A satisfying ending?
- Is it a mistake to fire Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson?
- The 'Anger Room': The new way to blow off steam after work
- The violent sex life of the 'dagger penis' bug
- JPMorgan's $2 billion loss: Time to fire CEO Jamie Dimon?
- SNL's 'dirty and weird' star-studded 100th Digital Short
- SpaceX: Should we cheer private space flight?
- The chimp who learned to trick humans... and pelt them with stones
- 5 reasons China's economy is slowing down
- May 11th
- Should a teacher be fired for making students wear a doggie 'cone of shame'?
- Good day, bad day: May 11, 2012
- The disturbing shooting targets featuring Trayvon Martin
- The Syria car bombings: 3 repercussions
- The explosive Gangster Squad trailer: 5 talking points
- The rise of electroshock therapy: A guide
- Julia Alvarez's 6 favorite books
- Auto Hop: Will Dish Network's ad-skipping system backfire?
- The new World Trade Center: Not America's tallest building, after all?
- The invaluable weight of a mother's gifts
- The Pacific Ocean's growing plastic problem
- May 10th
- The paralyzed marathoner with an incredible robot suit
- Gossip: Jessica Simpson
- Gossip: Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian
- Gossip: John Travolta
- The bottom line
- Good day, bad day: May 10, 2012
- A Windows-powered Facebook phone: 3 reasons it might happen
- TIME's jaw-dropping breast-feeding cover: Too provocative?
- The ill-fated search for the next Glee: A timeline
- Charity of the week: ShelterBox USA
- What the experts say
- The troops’ favorite bootlegger
- Usain Bolt’s relaxed pace
- James Cameron’s Titanic ambition
- Libraries vs. Fifty Shades of Grey: The war on 'mommy porn'
- Geofencing: Can texting save the brick-and-mortar retail industry?
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Volkswagen's Jetsons-like hover car
- The week at a glance...United States
- Good week, Bad week
- Husband fails to stop wife from voting, and more
- Football: Is Seau's death ‘a tipping point’?
- Editor's letter: Turning away from football
- A lackluster jobs report
- Student creates the ideal car, and more
- Super-fast computers... made by bacteria?
- The Week contest: Tweets with TMI
- May 9th
- Best properties on the market
- Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes
- Book of the week: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
- The news at a glance
- Charles Higham, 1931–2012
- Adam Yauch, 1964–2012
- Maurice Sendak, 1928–2012
- An Instagram for video: Silicon Valley's next holy grail?
- Best websites...Online retailing’s Webby honorees
- For those who have everything: A new chair from Tempronics
- Tip of the week: How to treat an insect sting
- Good day, bad day: May 9, 2012
- LOL: The Miley Cyrus flop that earned just $440 per screen
- The best…outdoor gear
- The 2013 Dodge Dart: What the critics say
- Getting the flavor of...New Jersey’s Pine Barrens
- This week’s travel dream: Napoleon’s final island home
- The dolphins that overdosed on heroin... at a rave
- Recipe of the week: Smoked Gouda macaroni and cheese
- Wine: Classic Alsace
- Critics’ choice: Three interpretations of Spanish cuisine
- Show of the week: The Weight of the Nation
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Lena Dunham confronts the Girls racism controversy: Is she convincing?
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The Perfect Family
- Bernie
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Who's to blame for the rising cost of student loans?
- The Columnist
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
- Exhibit of the week: House & Home
- Author of the week: Dan Rather
- Also of interest...in portraits of American cities
- Argo's first trailer: Will Ben Affleck's ambitious Iran hostage drama succeed?
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- A new trend in teenage sex?, and more
- Chen Guangcheng: Taking half a loaf
- The Scream: Worth $120 million?
- Elizabeth Warren: A little bit Cherokee
- Sheltering a Chinese criminal
- Boston's thieving hypnotists, and more
- 5 reasons TBS should save Cougar Town
- Yogurt: The secret to male sexual prowess?
- May 8th
- 5 reasons new graduates face a grim economic future
- Should you draft a 'social media will'?
- Good day, bad day: May 8, 2012
- The foiled al Qaeda underwear bomb plot: 5 takeaways
- Why Univision's new Hispanic cable channel is in English
- The classiest flash mob ever?
- Remembering Maurice Sendak: How he revolutionized children's literature
- Francois Hollande vs. Angela Merkel: A looming war over austerity?
- Touche: Disney's 'mind-blowing' touch-sensing technology
- Breakthrough: A general treatment drug for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's?
- How Facebook is reinventing organ donation
- May 7th
- Did farting kill the dinosaurs?
- Why Verizon might not want you to buy an iPhone: 4 theories
- Greece's landmark elections: 5 takeaways
- Good day, bad day: May 7, 2012
- Are stars of romantic comedies doomed?
- Are Koreans smuggling ground-up dead babies from China?
- Heartland's ballsy attack on climate-change theory: The fallout
- East Asia's nearsighted-child epidemic: Is over-studying to blame?
- Draw Something's disastrous month: 3 theories behind the slump
- Tattoos... for your dog?
- The Avengers' record-breaking opening weekend: By the numbers
- The Chen Guangcheng exile deal: Happy ending or disaster?
- Did Ikea use political prisoners to make its furniture?
- Does Red Bull give you tooth decay?
- May 4th
- Remembering Beastie Boys' Adam 'MCA' Yauch: A video tribute
- Michael Jackson revived as Pepsi's pitchman: Too creepy?
- Good day, bad day: May 4, 2012
- The mouth spray that gets you drunk... for a few seconds
- The kindergarten for stressed-out toddlers
- The Samsung Galaxy S III debut: 5 talking points
- Christy Turlington's 'totally confusing' war on Mother's Day
- Does CNN need to lean further left to win back viewers?
- Steve Jobs as FDR: The 'impossibly weird' Apple commercial
- Parents who pay their grown children's bills: By the numbers
- Gossip: Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi
- April's disappointing jobs report: 6 takeaways
- Ken Burns' 6 favorite books about World War II
- The 13-year-old CEO who invented a cure for hiccups
- Ken Burns' 6 favorite books about World War II
- Dopamine: The difference between slackers and go-getters?
- How to avoid another GSA boondoggle
- May 3rd
- Ashton Kutcher's racist Popchips ad: What was he thinking?
- Gossip: Ryan O’Neal
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan
- Gossip: Patrick Dempsey
- Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives by Robert Draper
- Book of the week: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Elisabeth Badinter
- Good day, bad day: May 3, 2012
- The cutthroat business of celebrity baby photos: By the numbers
- Five talking points about Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
- George Vujnovich, 1915–2012
- Bill ‘Moose’ Skowron, 1930–2012
- Benzion Netanyahu, 1910–2012
- Charity of the week: Safe Passage
- What the experts say
- Issue of the week: The rise of the ‘brogrammer’
- The news at a glance
- Junior Seau and the disturbing NFL suicide trend
- The week at a glance...International
- George Zimmerman's MySpace page: 4 takeaways
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- Health-care spending curbed by recession
- Only in California, and more
- Good week, Bad week
- Editor's letter: College costs galore! And jobs?
- Missing son finds his father, and more
- A Chinese dissident shames the regime
- The dark matter pelting your body right now: A guide
- The Week contest - Dog sitcoms
- May 2nd
- The man who hacked Hollywood
- Hulu's 'annoying' cable TV deal: Will it wreck the streaming service?
- RIM's surprisingly impressive BlackBerry 10 preview: 4 takeaways
- Van Halen’s stage fright
- Bonham Carter’s full disclosure
- Best properties on the market
- Getting the flavor of...Cycling outside Vegas, and more
- Princeton's crackdown on frats: Too harsh?
- This week’s travel dream: Greece as the Greeks know it
- Las Vegas’s great steakhouses
- Low-alcohol pinot noir
- Are highly religious people less compassionate?
- Pickled asparagus: A twist on an iconic taste of spring
- 6 ways to save movie theaters
- Good day, bad day: May 2, 2012
- Show of the week: White Heat
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Norah Jones: Little Broken Hearts
- The Lyons
- The Five-Year Engagement
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits
- The Avengers
- Making a Presence: F. Holland Day in Artistic Photography
- Exhibit of the week: Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939
- The London Olympics opening ceremony: What we know so far
- Delta's oil refinery purchase: Should more airlines follow suit?
- Author of the week: Madeleine Albright
- Also of interest...in the rites of spring
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Gingrich: The lessons of a failed campaign
- Ryan’s budget: Would Jesus vote for it?
- Al Qaida: No longer a real threat?
- A year of fallout from bin Laden raid
- Rupert Murdoch: ‘Not fit’ to lead News Corp.
- A dentist's revenge, and more
- Does avoiding taxes make Apple evil?
- For those who have everything: MagicBath baby hot tub
- The 'zombie-like' Titanic replica
- Best apps…A Spotify primer
- Tip of the week: How to remove makeup stains
- The best...Mother’s Day gifts
- The 2013 Acura ILX: What the critics say
- The heavy price of obesity in America: By the numbers
- May 1st
- Good day, bad day: May 1, 2012
- 2012 Tony nominations: The 8 biggest snubs and surprises
- Should Saudi Arabia's all-male team be banned from the Olympics?
- The Dark Knight Rises' awesomely complex viral marketing campaign
- The Ugly Meter: The iPhone app that rates your attractiveness
- Community's strange finale scheduling: A bad sign for renewal?
- Are terrorists hijacking Syria's uprising?
- Stendra: A guide to the new FDA-backed Viagra rival
- The self-cleaning, glare-free glass that doesn't fog up
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