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October 2012
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- October 31st
- 6 ways Hurricane Sandy affected the entertainment world
- The daily gossip: Tim Tebow has a new girlfriend, and more
- Hurricane Sandy: A letter from The Week's editor
- WATCH: A timelapse video of Hurricane Sandy's terrifying descent on New York
- Busted: Florida's massive pee-wee football gambling ring
- Hurricane Sandy: Is climate change to blame?
- Hurricane Sandy: Should the New York Marathon be canceled?
- Disney takes over Star Wars: 5 theories about the franchise's long-term future
- The Apple shake-up: What it says about CEO Tim Cook
- How to help victims of Hurricane Sandy
- @ComfortablySmug: How one Twitter user became Hurricane Sandy's biggest villain
- The deadly wrath of Hurricane Sandy: By the numbers
- October 30th
- American Apparel's offensive Hurricane Sandy sale
- The daily gossip: A second Kim Kardashian sex tape is allegedly looming, and more
- The 2012-2013 NBA season begins: 7 burning questions
- 5 Hurricane Sandy-inspired memes
- How do hurricanes get their names?
- Hurricane Sandy: 3 tales of incredible heroism
- Hurricane Sandy: What New York needs to do to get back on track
- WATCH: New York's massive Con Edison explosion during Hurricane Sandy
- Steve Jobs' mysterious iMac-controlled yacht
- How the presidential campaigns will restart their engines
- Superstorm Sandy's wrath: How bad is the damage?
- 10 fake photos of Hurricane Sandy
- WATCH LIVE: WNBC covers the fallout of Superstorm Sandy
- October 29th
- The daily gossip: Paul McCartney says that Yoko Ono didn't break up the Beatles, and more
- We are all Nate Silvers
- Everything you need to know about Google's new Nexus smartphone and tablet
- The Penguin-Random House merger: 3 takeaways
- How to stay safe during Hurricane Sandy: 7 tips
- Hurricane Sandy: Photos and first-hand accounts from across the Northeast
- How the underdog San Francisco Giants swept the World Series
- WATCH LIVE: The Weather Channel's Hurricane Sandy coverage
- The last 'Frankenstorm': Video of the 1938 nor'easter that ravaged New England
- October 28th
- October 27th
- October 26th
- Did dinosaurs develop wings for sex?
- The daily gossip: Lindsay Lohan's publicist quits, and more
- 5 smart reads for the weekend
- Frankenstorm: What we know about Hurricane Sandy
- Saturn's swirling megastorm that's bigger than multiple Earths
- How long can Amazon go without making money?
- Cloud Atlas: 6 fascinating behind-the-scenes facts
- Gossip: Dinesh D’Souza
- Gossip: Roger Ailes
- Gossip: Pippa Middleton
- Gossip: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore
- The amazing triumph of Windows 8
- October 25th
- The daily gossip: Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy break up, and more
- 'The hustle': A guide to Bank of America's alleged mortgage fraud
- A female fighter on Syria’s front line
- Dunham’s naked talk
- Snoop’s parenting tips
- Is Cloud Atlas racist?
- Will the Curiosity rover ever come back to Earth?
- The week at a glance...International
- CNN's 'hormonal women voters' article: 6 outraged reactions
- The week at a glance...Europe
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The nasty germs living on your cellphone
- The week at a glance...United States
- 10 peculiar things banned by public schools
- Police protect a pet hamster, and more
- Editor's letter: The myth of social mobility
- Nuclear talks with Iran
- The Scouts’ shameful secrets
- Stolen watch is recovered after 53 years, and more
- New England’s vampire panic
- Good week, Bad week
- Inmates sue for access to dental floss, and more
- The Week contest - Debate do-overs
- October 24th
- What these late deciders really want
- Russell Means, 1939–2012
- George McGovern, 1922–2012
- Best properties on the market
- Charity of the week: Operation Support Our Troops–America
- What the experts say
- The daily gossip: Tom Cruise sues tabloids for $50 million, and more
- Issue of the week: What’s next for Citigroup?
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Can too much caffeine kill you?
- The Safe Haven trailer: How many times can Nicholas Sparks rewrite the same story?
- 3 ways the Syria ceasefire could go wrong
- The 25 worst passwords of 2012
- For those who have everything: iRobot Looj 330
- Best apps for learning (or reviewing) a second language
- Cooking: The secret to the evolution of the human brain
- Tip of the week: How to handle common Halloween messes
- The best...campfire gear
- The 2013 Porsche Boxster: What the critics say
- Getting the flavor of...A bird paradise on the Rio Grande
- This week’s travel dream: Panama City’s historic heart
- Puglia: An honest bargain
- 9 strange ways to power your cellphone [Updated]
- Recipe of the week: Crook’s Corner shrimp and grits
- Critics’ choice: Casino dining for every kind of visitor
- Show of the week: Independent Lens: Love Free or Die
- Tigers vs. Giants: Everything you need to know about the World Series
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
- The Sessions
- Cloud Atlas
- Moby-Dick
- Modern Terrorism
- Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972
- Exhibit of the week: The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism
- Author of the week: Hilary Mantel
- Also of interest...in pandemics past and future
- Best books...chosen by David Denby
- Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
- Book of the week: Building Stories by Chris Ware
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Texas cheerleaders: Mixing faith and football
- Gay marriage: It’s up to the Supremes
- Australia: Where even the teachers can’t spell
- Lebanon: Assassination renews threat of civil war
- France: Twitter erupts in anti-Semitism
- To circumcise, or not to circumcise?
- The 25 most powerful TV shows of the past 25 years
- No debate about drones
- October 23rd
- Iceland's crowd-sourced constitution: A brief guide
- The daily gossip: Justin Timberlake snubs his former 'N Sync bandmates, and more
- Everything you need to know about Apple's iPad Mini event
- 'Gangnam Style': The 11 best parodies of the viral video [Updated]
- Apple's iPad Mini event: Live-blogging the reactions
- Superman quits his reporting job at the Daily Planet: 4 real-life journalists react
- Is Windows 8 worth the upgrade?
- Is exercise better for your brain than crossword puzzles?
- 7 film adaptations that betray their literary source material
- Why Romney was so meek
- October 22nd
- The daily gossip: Adele allegedly had a baby, and more
- Are London's iconic black taxis going extinct?
- Why your pillow is as gross as your toilet seat
- Can whales mimic human voices?
- The L'Aquila verdict: Is it wrong to jail scientists for flubbing earthquake warnings?
- The state of the race
- Apple's iPad Mini: 7 rumored features [Updated]
- 17 famous actors in tiny background parts
- Paranormal Activity's confounding popularity: 3 theories
- AMC and Dish settle their lawsuit: Who wins?
- The Wisconsin spa shootings: What we know so far
- Angels in the newsroom
- October 21st
- October 20th
- October 19th
- How safe is it for women to freeze their eggs?
- The daily gossip: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel get married, and more
- Why I Left Goldman Sachs: Is the bank's most famous quitter a con man?
- 5 smart reads for the weekend
- The week's best of the internet
- The boy kicked out of school for carrying a cystic fibrosis gene
- Princess Sofia: Meet Disney's first Latina princess
- Can Starbucks make it in India?
- Alex Cross: Can Tyler Perry make the leap to drama?
- The incredible shrinking manufacturing sector
- Not an October surprise
- October 18th
- The daily gossip: Joaquin Phoenix disses the Oscars, and more
- Could hackers use pacemakers to commit mass murder?
- Gossip: Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz
- Gossip: Kristen Stewart
- Gossip: Jennifer Aniston
- Gossip: Russell Crowe
- Why Wall Street is panicking over Google: 4 theories
- The 'under-the-radar' celebrity pregnancy trend
- Can Newsweek survive as a digital-only publication?
- Spring break in Libya
- Why it's impossible to ignore the sound of a crying baby
- What the alleged Federal Reserve bomb plot says about the terror war: 4 theories
- Why American Horror Story: Asylum is TV's scariest show
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Europe
- Was the moon once part of Earth?
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- Preparing for cyberwar
- Editor's letter: In the end, Malala will win
- The world's oldest father, and more
- Ukraine's disturbing 'Barbie flu' beauty trend
- Good week, Bad week
- Judge okays execution of crazy inmate, and more
- Newsweek shutters its print magazine: First reactions
- The evolution of SEAL Team Six
- Sudoku - October 26, 2012
- The Week contest - Underemployed grads
- October 17th
- Norodom Sihanouk, 1922–2012
- Arlen Specter, 1930–2012
- Child’s street-fighting years
- Burton’s Gothic childhood
- The unemployed 23-year-old behind the 'binders full of women' meme
- The daily gossip: Megan Fox reveals she gave birth last month, and more
- Kidman’s life after Cruise
- Charity of the week: WildAid
- What the experts say
- 5 kids smarter than Albert Einstein
- Issue of the week: A defense megamerger goes bust
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- For those who have everything: The Drywarmer
- Your phone: How to limit roaming charges while traveling
- Tip of the week: How to function on minimal sleep
- The best...washers and dryers
- Dave on Wheels: The quadriplegic blogger who turned out to be a hoax
- The 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid: What the critics say
- Best properties on the market
- 10 ridiculous 'mockbuster' knock-offs of blockbuster films
- Getting the flavor of...America’s only tank park, and more
- This week’s travel dream: Sudan’s surprising promise
- Drink: Ginger beers
- Do multivitamins help prevent cancer?
- Richmond: Virginia’s new food capital?
- Roast duck: A New Orleans take on a Chinatown specialty
- The San Francisco suburb with the country's toughest smoking ban
- Show of the week: Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- Smashed
- Seven Psychopaths
- Argo
- One Night With Janis Joplin
- Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity
- Exhibit of the week: Ai Weiwei: According to What?
- 5 singers dubbed 'the next Rebecca Black'
- Author of the week: Mo Yan
- Also of interest...new offerings from old favorite
- Best books...chosen by Jami Attenberg
- Nike cuts ties with Lance Armstrong: The right move?
- Who I Am by Pete Townshend
- Book of the week: Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century by James R. Flynn
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Good governance in Africa, and more
- Pakistan: A nation unites against the Taliban
- The wrong way to cook a squirrel, and more
- The world’s silliest territorial dispute
- October 16th
- October 15th
- NASA's Iron Man space suit
- The daily gossip: Russell Crowe splits with Danielle Spencer, and more
- Will Microsoft's 'Xbox Music' be an iTunes killer?
- Where did the water on the moon come from?
- Brad Pitt's 'embarrassingly awful' Chanel No. 5 ad
- Glenn Beck's new advertisement… for jeans?
- The Sprint-Softbank merger: 4 takeaways
- The conservatives protesting an anti-bullying day for its 'gay agenda'
- Did global warming stop 16 years ago?
- Queen Elizabeth's plan to build low-income housing on her private estate
- The Walking Dead: 4 reactions to the gruesome season premiere
- Felix Baumgartner's jump from space: By the numbers
- Did early humans eat pandas?
- October 13th
- October 12th
- 5 smart reads for the weekend
- Meet Thermite: The firefighting robot of the future
- The cost of getting the flu: By the numbers
- Argo: Which cast member out-acts the rest?
- Is the NFL profiting from Breast Cancer Awareness Month?
- Is the secret to winning a Nobel Prize... chocolate?
- Zero Dark Thirty: Watch the trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden movie
- The EU's puzzling Nobel Peace Prize win: First reactions
- October 11th
- Gossip: Bristol Palin
- Gossip: Chris Brown
- Gossip: Simon Cowell
- Gossip: Lady Gaga
- 4 reasons Apple still makes iPods
- Jim Carrey and 7 other victims of the celebrity death hoax
- Are there metal mesh fragments in your Frosted Mini-Wheats?
- Video: What if Coca-Cola's polar bears actually drank Coke?
- My digital nightmare
- Are PC makers doomed?
- The myth of U.S. entrepreneurs
- Mo Yan: The life and career of 2012's Nobel-prize-winning author
- Meet the soft-shelled turtle that urinates from its mouth
- Measure results, not hours
- The week at glance...International
- The week at a glance...Europe
- How Facebook and Twitter are trumping sex
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Why are more young Americans having strokes?
- The week at a glance...United States
- The Taliban’s cowardly attack
- Cheerleader sets a halftime record, and more
- Unemployment drops below 8 percent
- Congress' hyper-partisan Benghazi hearings: The fallout
- Good week, Bad week
- House committee member rejects evolution, and more
- The Week contest - Big Bird's resume
- October 10th
- The tragedy of bureaucracy
- The debate that probably won't matter
- Charity of the week: Arthritis National Research Foundation
- Making money: What the experts say
- Issue of the week: Facebook’s 1 billion friends
- The bottom line
- The USADA report on Lance Armstrong's alleged doping: 5 revelations
- The news at a glance
- The D.C. sniper’s apprentice
- Presley’s spoiled youth
- Allen on aging
- Michael Henry Heim, 1943–2012
- Sven Hassel, 1917–2012
- Best websites for private flash sales
- For those who have everything: Tegra-Lite Bulletproof Attaché
- Tip of the week: How to be quicker in the kitchen
- The best...fall athletic wear
- The 2013 BMW Alpina B7: What the critics say
- Best properties on the market
- New trailer: Watch Anthony Hopkins channel Alfred Hitchcock
- Getting the flavor of...New Mexico’s artists haven
- This week’s travel dream: A thriving, reinvented Istanbul
- Southern hemisphere whites
- Recipe of the week: Quail and grapes
- Critics’ choice: Mexican beyond the everyday taqueria
- How coffee keeps Alzheimer's at bay
- Show of the week: Ethel
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- 6 remarkable police animals
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The Paperboy
- Pitch Perfect
- Frankenweenie
- The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
- Grace
- Exhibit of the week: Concordia, Concordia
- Author of the week: Aarathi Prasad
- Also of interest...in ethics and ideals
- Best books...chosen by Ty Burr
- 4 reasons Nashville is TV's best new drama
- Why we'll never have a real-life Jurassic Park
- Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Book of the week: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Samsung's Galaxy S III mini: Is a smaller phone really such a good idea?
- Iran: Are the sanctions working?
- A 14-year-old Pakistani girl's brave fight against the Taliban: A timeline
- Syria: Will the conflict widen to Turkey?
- Britain hands over a terror suspect
- A lesson in how to die
- Fishing from the couch, and more
- The history of presidential debates
- Starbucks vs. Starbarks and 5 other petty copyright infringement claims
- October 9th
- Sbarro's new pizza recipe: Can the struggling chain make a comeback?
- Why some doctors think Adderall is the cure for academic failure
- Does Facebook need a 'want' button?
- Is Turkey trying to start a war with Syria?
- Walmart's new prepaid debit card: A threat to big banks?
- Microsoft's futuristic bracelet that lets you make 3D hand gestures
- Community's season premiere is delayed indefinitely: Is the series doomed?
- October 8th
- The marching-band tribute to video games — and 6 more killer halftime shows
- Everything you need to know about America's meningitis outbreak
- Why are French bees producing colored honey?
- Are vanity phone numbers the future?
- 13 little-known punctuation marks we should be using
- The Army's eight-wheeled laser truck that zaps enemy missiles
- Is Lena Dunham's new advice book really worth a $3.5 million advance?
- The Jon Stewart-Bill O'Reilly debate: Who lost?
- 4 reasons Apple should buy Nokia
- October 7th
- October 6th
- October 5th
- Taken 2: What went wrong?
- 'Lady Snake Lord': Inside the tomb of a Maya warrior queen
- Aging: Can aspirin really help slow brain decline?
- Feeling your pain
- Who won the week?
- 'Jobs report truthers': The conspiracy theorists who claim the unemployment report is bogus
- The unexpectedly positive September jobs report: 4 takeaways
- Gossip: Anne Hathaway
- Gossip: Drew Barrymore
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan
- Gossip: Justin Bieber
- Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: Too creepy for kids?
- October 4th
- Facebook's completely bizarre first commercial... about chairs
- The airport boarding gate that instantly detects explosives
- Charity of the week: Tourette Syndrome Association
- What the experts say
- Issue of the week: Does Wall Street need speed limits?
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Why do I hunt?
- The bacteria that turns toxic chemicals into pure gold
- Everything you need to know about Miguel Cabrera's triple crown victory
- Kardashian’s biggest talent
- Washington’s message to dads
- Watson’s uneasy celebrity
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Facebook's 1 billion user milestone: By the numbers
- The week at a glance...United States
- Editor's letter: Picture-perfect college campuses
- Sixty-five and still running backward, and more
- The Supreme Court’s fraught new term
- Good week, Bad week
- Motorcyclist hits a panther, and more
- The Week contest - For-sale signs
- October 3rd
- Andy Williams, 1927–2012
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, 1926–2012
- Black mamba venom: A safer alternative to morphine?
- Best properties on the market
- Best apps for babies
- For those who have everything: Swing Table
- Tip of the week: How to feel like a major leaguer
- The best...tech problem-solvers
- The Hyundai Santa Fe Sport: What the critics say
- Yahoo's CEO crowdsources for a baby name: A hot new parenting trend?
- Getting the flavor of...A dog heaven in Vermont, and more
- This week’s dream: India’s ‘world capital of yoga’
- Wine: Austrian reds
- Weekend in Los Angeles: A foodie’s itinerary
- Lemongrass: Vietnamese cuisine’s not-so-secret ingredient
- Show of the week: Nashville
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Video on demand: A new revolution for indie films?
- Won’t Back Down
- Looper
- The worrying rise in 'stoner dogs': A brief guide
- Allegiance
- Sweet Bird of Youth
- Where to buy...Tony Dow
- Open Air
- Exhibit of the week: Discovering Columbus
- Author of the week: Damien Echols
- Also of interest...in other election-season reading
- Will an all-you-can-watch MoviePass save the multiplex?
- 8 people who played presidential candidates in mock debates
- Best books…chosen by Ralph Nader
- Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream by Neil Young
- Book of the week: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- The space boat that could explore Saturn's moon
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Estimating airstrike casualties, and more
- Does a shaved head give you an advantage in corporate America?
- Super PACs: Not so influential after all
- Listen to the 1983 Steve Jobs speech that predicted the iPad
- How they see us: Handing over a Canadian jihadist
- Egypt: This nation is more than just Islam
- Watch the teaser trailer for Johnny Depp's The Lone Ranger
- Spain: As economy dives, Catalonia wants out
- Fisherman finds a severed finger, and more
- In gold we trust?
- October 2nd
- The debate: Who is this guy?
- The Silent History: The strange new e-book that makes you travel to read it
- Why are seats coming loose on American Airlines' planes?
- 6 terrifying instances of pets eating their owners
- Can Botox help treat depression?
- Does shared housework really lead to divorce?
- 5 historical attempts to ban coffee
- Showtime's Homeland: 4 reasons you should be watching
- The cyber debate goes public
- October 1st
- The world's aging population: By the numbers
- How asteroid dust could help us cool down Earth
- Why is Ikea erasing women from its Saudi Arabian catalog?
- Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane: A smart pick to host the Oscars?
- Luvs' new 'public breastfeeding is awesome' ad
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's 60 Minutes interview: 6 revelations
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