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December 2012
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- December 31st
- Did Neil Armstrong mislead the world about his 'one small step' line?
- The pet chicken that saved its owners from a house fire
- What's the best way to avoid a hangover on New Year's day?
- 36 compelling survey results from 2012
- 23 bizarre things ceremonially dropped on New Year's Eve
- 6 really weird things we learned about humankind this year
- Remembering the influential lives lost in 2012
- The world's 9 best movie-inspired theme bars
- Gun control won't work
- 5 disturbing trends you should pay attention to in 2013
- December 30th
- December 29th
- December 28th
- Can Benazir Bhutto's son save Pakistan's democracy?
- 25 wonderful words and phrases we learned in 2012
- The 7 most bizarre global style trends of 2012
- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf: Remembering a distinctive military career
- The 12 best* Android apps of the year
- China tightens internet restrictions: What does it mean for web users?
- The top 8 parenting controversies of 2012
- December 27th
- Toyota's $1 billion settlement: Has the automaker buried its recall problems?
- The top 20 weird news stories of 2012
- Starbucks' fiscal-cliff fail: The coffee chain's inane call for bipartisanship
- Why is Russia considering a ban on U.S. adoptions?
- The 11 most fascinating scientific discoveries of 2012
- The 10 best-reviewed movies of 2012
- America's 9 craziest lawsuits of 2012
- December 26th
- Did a rapidly changing climate make early humans smarter?
- The 5 best fiction books of the year
- Is it wrong to publish the names and addresses of gun owners?
- Congress won't act on gun control. But Obama and the states can
- Got a new iPad for Christmas? 11 must-have apps
- The 10 sports stories that defined 2012
- The 5 best nonfiction books of the year
- The 13 biggest pop culture moments of 2012
- December 25th
- Netflix goes down on Christmas Eve: 9 panicked reactions
- The grassroots movement to get Piers Morgan deported: Could it actually work?
- The year's 9 most hilarious New York Times corrections
- The origin story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- 10 famous people born on December 25
- 12 unconventional Christmas movies
- December 24th
- Cloning the perfect Christmas tree
- Dispatch from Rome: Will Italians give Silvio Berlusconi another chance?
- 5 classic stories to read for Christmas
- Les Miserables' astounding popularity: By the numbers
- When did Santa Claus get so fat?
- The 17 most memorable tweets of 2012
- 7 holiday specials that will turn you into a Grinch
- Are poinsettias as dangerous as everyone says?
- December 23rd
- December 22nd
- December 21st
- The daily gossip: 'Gangnam Style' earns 1 billion YouTube views, and more
- 5 smart reads for the weekend
- The NRA's instantly inflammatory post-Connecticut press event
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- How we'd really deal with an Armageddon-sized asteroid
- Can the Fed lower the jobless rate?
- Making money: Renting in retirement, and more
- 5 Americana bands that will help you believe in America again
- December 20th
- Gossip: Russell Crowe
- The daily gossip: Ben Affleck is open to running for Senate, and more
- Gossip: Katie Holmes
- Gossip: Jon Stewart, Hugh Grant
- Gossip: Justin Bieber
- Would you eat meat made from ground-up mealworms?
- Whose Wit & Wisdom?
- NASA's next-generation spacesuit: Inspired by Buzz Lightyear?
- Issue of the week: The Fed targets unemployment
- End-of-year quiz
- Books of the year: Nonfiction
- Books of the year: Fiction
- Farewell
- Charity of the week: Days End Farm Horse Rescue
- What the experts say
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- Is the Christmas card dead?
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- Yeager’s right stuff
- Bruni’s unlikely love
- Farrell cleans up
- 6 movies for the end of the world
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at glance...Europe
- Did the human hand evolve for fighting?
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- Good week, Bad week
- Backfiring car triggers panic, and more
- Newtown: Violence, video games, and mental illness
- Welcome to Tough Love with Starshine Roshell
- Editor's letter: Our dysfunctional romance with violence
- 6 predicted apocalypses that never happened
- The killer: ‘I’m losing him’
- The heroes of Sandy Hook
- The Newtown school massacre and America's gun obsession: By the numbers
- The Newtown school massacre
- Why are flags flown at half-staff in times of mourning?
- Why more NFL teams should start rookie QBs
- Diagnosing the Home Alone burglars' injuries: A professional weighs in
- Zero dark lashes
- December 19th
- Confessions of a hotel insider
- The daily gossip: Kristen Stewart apologizes to everyone, and more
- President Obama's gun-violence task force: A cop-out?
- The Week contest - Unlikely 2013 headlines
- 5 important facts and misconceptions about Asperger's syndrome
- It must be true...The best of the tabloids in 2012
- Holiday gifts: For those who have everything
- Best properties on the market
- Getting the flavor of...Minnesota’s mega-mall, and more
- This week’s travel dream: A classic ski destination in the Austrian Alps
- Alsace: Font of winter whites
- Recipe of the week: Crown roast of pork with lemon and fennel
- Critics’ choice: The year’s best restaurants, in three cities
- Other holiday releases
- Django Unchained
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Les Misérables
- Show of the week: Masterpiece: Downton Abbey, Season 3
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Movies on TV
- Singles of the year: The critics’ top three
- Critics’ choice: The best albums of 2012
- Exhibit of the week: Huma Bhabha: Unnatural Histories
- Artist of the year: Damien Hirst
- The big scientific milestones of 2012...
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- The 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2012
- The Letters
- Golden Boy
- …and some of the things we were told to avoid
- Some of the things they said were good for us...
- 7 awful Christmas movies that flopped
- The skyrocketing sales of bulletproof backpacks for kids [Updated]
- Wit & Wisdom
- WATCH: The paralyzed woman who moved a robotic arm with her mind
- Unions: How they lost their power
- Controversial conservative jurist Robert Bork dead at 85
- Delayed parenthood: The price of waiting
- Obamacare: The Republican rebellion
- Torture: Did it lead to bin Laden?
- Torturing an innocent man
- Tournament ousts Jesus look-alike, and more
- Egypt: Approving a flawed constitution
- What 'meaningful contributions' will the NRA offer after Sandy Hook?
- The first Noel
- 10 nonviolent ways to thwart a Westboro Baptist Church protest
- December 18th
- The daily gossip: Lady Gaga runs out of shocking wardrobe ideas, and more
- The Mayan apocalypse: By the numbers
- The kerfuffle over Instagram's new user terms: Overblown?
- The fight over gun control: By the numbers
- The Connecticut school massacre: Are investors backing away from the gun business?
- The shady trade in American horsemeat
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- 10 ways the entertainment industry is being sensitive to the Connecticut massacre
- The Connecticut school massacre: How the world sees us
- Why states should take the lead in reforming gun laws
- 5 gun-rights advocates who changed their minds after Sandy Hook
- What America's leaders could learn from the Advent
- December 17th
- The daily gossip: Channing Tatum is having a baby, and more
- Diet Pepsi's new recipe: Will fans taste the difference?
- 6 crazy ways people around the world are prepping for 'doomsday'
- Why is McDonald's pressuring its stores to remain open on Christmas?
- 7 celebrities who attempted to write fiction
- Is Bashar al-Assad nearly finished?
- Are we secretly living inside a computer program?
- Why are there so few female mass murderers?
- Where Homeland can go from here: 4 theories
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- Ronald Reagan would demand more gun control
- 16 abbreviated company names explained
- Why do we kiss underneath the mistletoe?
- The Connecticut school massacre: A game-changer for gun control?
- Should teachers be armed?
- Asperger's, guns, and divorce: What we know about Connecticut massacre suspect Adam Lanza
- Medicare and Social Security: Fixing the safety net
- Afghanistan: Where women have no choice
- December 16th
- December 15th
- December 14th
- What gun control can and can't do
- The daily gossip: Jon Stewart disses Hugh Grant, and more
- The week's best of the internet
- 5 smart reads for the weekend
- Connecticut massacre suspect: How the media IDed the wrong guy [Updated]
- How to prevent more mass killings
- Massacre in Connecticut: 8 disturbing eyewitness accounts [Updated]
- The shocking number of deaths caused by falling TVs
- WATCH LIVE: NBC's TV coverage of the deadly Connecticut school shootings
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- Syria's PR campaign failed — and so did America's policy
- 5 reasons The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a disappointment
- Why does Google build apps for its rival Apple's iPhone?
- The baby who had a feather in her neck
- Why would anyone commit murder during the day in midtown Manhattan?
- Is Apple coming home?
- Making money: When to cash in your life insurance, and more
- 6 cases of alleged shamelessly false advertising
- December 13th
- 7 alleged psychotic plots targeting celebrities
- The daily gossip: Courtney Love disses Paul McCartney, and more
- The 10 healthiest countries in the world for both men and women
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan
- Gossip: Taylor Swift
- Gossip: Miley Cyrus
- Gossip: Psy
- The Week contest - CNN shows
- 5 things you didn't know about 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'
- Meet Kenshiro: Japan's creepy boy robot with an aluminum skeleton and 160 muscles
- The 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert: 7 memorable moments
- 12 people who made a living eating inedible things
- The news at a glance
- Is this the most ridiculous job posting ever?
- Why did humans start eating cheese in the first place?
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- The 2013 Golden Globes nominations: Winners and losers
- Stewart’s brutal upbringing
- Walken’s nervous disposition
- Why Chastain was a loner
- Gay marriage: How will the Supreme Court rule?
- Google Maps returns to the iPhone: 'Free, fast, and fantastic'
- Michigan weakens unions
- A marriage proposal like no other, and more
- California's wealthy prison psychiatrists, and more
- December 12th
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- Welcome to Chilly D's, and more
- The daily gossip: Paul McCartney steps in as Nirvana frontman, and more
- Charity of the week: Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation
- Making money: What the experts say
- Remembering Ravi Shankar: 'The godfather of world music'
- Issue of the week: Is Apple coming home?
- Holiday gifts: The best stocking stuffers
- Fewer American deaths in Afghanistan, and more
- Wit & Wisdom
- 4 reasons to give Flickr's beautiful new photo app a try
- The Tea Party: Is the rebellion over?
- Syria: Will jihadists seize control?
- Debt ceiling: The case for a $1 trillion coin
- 8 logo revisions that had people howling
- Where women have no choice
- Oscar Niemeyer, 1907–2012
- Dave Brubeck, 1920–2012
- Best properties on the market
- WATCH: An iceberg the size of a mountain cleaves itself apart
- The 2013 Screen Actors Guild nominations: 5 surprises
- Getting the flavor of...Forgotten Virginia
- This week’s travel dream: Discovering the cradle of modern Italy
- Vermouth: Options multiply
- Chicago’s best sandwiches: The fine-dining edition
- Have the Russians developed the smartphone of the future?
- Show of the week: Project Nim
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Holiday shows
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- 10 famous first tweets from the Pope, Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama, and more
- Why the Mets should trade R.A. Dickey, but probably won't
- Exhibit of the week: Agnes Denes: Sculptures of the Mind—1968 to Now
- Author of the week: Mark Binelli
- Also of interest...in notable poetry
- 4 brutal takedowns of Politico's plan to craft a 'boom economy'
- Best books...chosen by Beth Raymer
- Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
- The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
- North Korea's rocket launch: 3 consequences
- Health & Science
- The 10 most Googled search terms of 2012
- U.K. and Australia: Trading blame for a nurse’s suicide
- Fixing the safety net
- Obesity growth rates slow
- December 11th
- The daily gossip: The universally desirable Jennifer Lawrence, and more
- The 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Meet the new class
- 6 superhero franchises that deserve to be rebooted
- How porcupines are helping doctors design better needles
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- Twitter adds Instagram-style filters: What it means for you
- The stories behind 10 famous product placements
- 8 pro sports teams that changed their nicknames
- Would you take it all?
- December 10th
- The daily gossip: Lindsay Lohan disses Charlie Sheen, and more
- Beer: Can it help fight off the common cold?
- How the Tampa Bay Rays hosed the Kansas City Royals
- 4 nightmare scenarios involving Apple Maps
- WATCH: The trailer for Tom Cruise's new sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion
- The 10 worst-reviewed movies of 2012
- The cup that changes color when date-rape drugs are present
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- 4 bizarre experiments that should never be repeated
- What killed the dinner party?
- The FCC: Lift the ban on using gadgets during takeoff (and landing)
- WATCH: The Australian prime minister's tongue-in-cheek zombie apocalypse warning
- December 9th
- December 8th
- December 7th
- The daily gossip: The plan to unite the Senate with a Lincoln screening, and more
- The week's best of the internet
- 5 smart reads for the weekend
- What's next for gay marriage?
- Controversy: 'Gangnam Style' singer Psy's allegedly anti-American past [Updated]
- Do cigarettes give you nastier hangovers?
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- Making money: Snagging year-end dividends, and more
- The frighteningly rapid die-off of the world's oldest trees
- What T-Mobile's unsubsidized iPhone means for you
- Hyde Park on Hudson: Does Bill Murray shine as FDR?
- The surprisingly solid jobs report — and how it strengthens Obama's hand in the fiscal cliff talks
- December 6th
- The daily gossip: Lindsay Lohan returns to Twitter, and more
- WATCH: How catfish taught themselves to snag pigeons for lunch
- Gossip: Hugh Hefner
- Gossip: Demi Moore
- Gossip: Kim Kardashian
- Gossip: Lindsay Lohan
- 21 furious Twitter reactions to Justin Bieber's Grammy snub
- The Week contest - Animal revenge
- The news at a glance
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- Why the world is preparing for war in Mali
- 2013 Grammy nominations: 5 surprising snubs
- The secret to a longer life: Having kids?
- The week at a glance...International
- The week at a glance...Europe
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- WATCH: The epic new Star Trek Into Darkness teaser
- Editor's letter: A lagging birthrate
- The Israel-Palestine rift deepens
- Obama’s red line on Syria
- Team of deaf players wins league title, and more
- The fiscal cliff: What happens if there’s no deal?
- Five states to start extended school hours
- Good week, Bad week
- Florida school panics over mercury thermometers, and more
- The world's first driving school... for dogs
- 17 offbeat holidays and anniversaries to celebrate in December
- The center of promiscuity?
- December 5th
- The bottom line
- Charity of the week: Sabin Vaccine Institute
- Making money: What the experts say
- Issue of the week: The death of daily deals?
- History detective: Did Churchill sacrifice a city to protect a secret?
- The daily gossip: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John release Xmas duet, and more
- Citigroup sheds 11,000 jobs: What's next for the mega-bank?
- Can a business sue you for posting a negative review on Yelp?
- In love with a bot
- Mickey Baker, 1925–2012
- Marvin Miller, 1917–2012
- Best properties on the market
- Holiday gifts: Best toys
- Getting the flavor of...A surprising Connecticut city, and more
- This week’s travel dream: Big adventure on Hawaii’s Big Island
- Wine: Texas-style terroir
- Recipe of the week: Penne with Brussels sprouts, chile, and pancetta
- Critics’ choice: The evolution of the ramen stall
- Show of the week: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- King Kelly
- Killing Them Softly
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- The Aliens
- Dead Accounts
- Steve McQueen
- Exhibit of the week: The Art of Scent 1889–2012
- The Hobbit: Inside Hollywood's global sausage factory
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- Also of interest...the lives of actors
- Next up for NASA: Another rover on Mars by 2020
- 6 surprising offers to help Lindsay Lohan
- Author of the week: Grace Coddington
- Best books...chosen by Benjamin Anastas
- Gift titles: The year’s best coffee-table reading
- The richest woman in Russia
- Law’s hounding by the press
- Ferry’s appetite for glamour
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- A tax break for the wealthy, and more
- Climate change: What the U.S. should do
- Hillary: Why she’ll run in 2016
- Susan Rice: Are her critics racist?
- The horrifying New York Post subway cover: Could the photographer have rescued the victim from death?
- Baby bust: The declining U.S. birthrate
- Israel and the Palestinians: The lines harden
- United Kingdom: Agog over a royal pregnancy
- France: Hollande’s zigzag presidency
- What's this in my burrito?, and more
- For royal babies who have everything: 8 bizarrely elite products
- Throwing money into the ocean
- Where is Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer? [Updated]
- 11 sounds that your kids have probably never heard
- December 4th
- What the condom of the future might look like
- The daily gossip: Eddie Murphy is Hollywood's most overpaid actor, and more
- Oscar watch: The 10 movies most likely to score Best Picture nominations
- What causes morning sickness?
- Is Seinfeld the funniest sitcom of all time?
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- The disturbing New York Post photo of a man about to be crushed by a subway train
- Caption contest winners: Famously photogenic
- The tiny transforming robot that can turn into (almost) anything
- Don't blame guns for Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide
- 5 political realities about the 'fiscal cliff'
- December 3rd
- The daily gossip: Mitt Romney wins 2012's meme wars, and more
- Should the Pope follow someone on Twitter other than himself?
- The New York Times' latest cutbacks: Proof its digital strategy is failing?
- Does tap water cause food allergies?
- Why is The Hobbit making some moviegoers sick?
- Today in business: 5 things you need to know
- The text message turns 20: A brief history of SMS
- The 6 funniest jokes from the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors
- The heartwarming photo of a New York cop helping a homeless man [Updated]
- Rupert Murdoch shutters The Daily: First reactions
- Caption contest: Famously photogenic
- Bob Costas touts gun control: Misuse of the Jovan Belcher tragedy?
- The perks and perils of our newly indexed society
- What you need to know about the Pentagon's new spy service
- December 2nd
- December 1st
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