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- Fashion Forward: Male Model Andrej Pejic Covers Elle Serbia
- What I Covet: Hugo Boss Velvet Wedge
- Hillary Clinton Hospitalized for Blood Clot: How Concussions and Clots Connect
- Destination Kurdistan: Is This Autonomous Iraqi Region a Budding Tourist Hot Spot?
- Monday’s Political Ledes
- Coney Island's Post Sandy Struggles
- 10 Tech-Industry Predictions for 2013
- Snack Boxes: The Latest Healthy Eating Trend
- Person of the Year
- The Year in TV: Welcome to Pawnee
- 2012: A Year of Strange Landscapes
- The 5 Best Viral Videos of December
- TIME’s Fearless Sports Predictions for 2013
- Yay for Recess: Pediatricians Say It’s as Important as Math or Reading
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 31: Say Goodbye to 2012
- The West Bank’s 2012: The Year of the Israeli Settlement
- TIME’s No. 1 Song of 2012: No, It’s Not ‘Gangnam Style’
- Person of the Year: President Barack Obama
- Today in TIME Tech History: New York to Chicago in Six Hours (1928), Retail Antitheft Tags (1984), CDs vs. DAT (1990) and More
- The Hobbit: Why Are There No Women in Tolkien’s World?
- New Year’s Eve 2012 Celebrations Kick Off
- Person of the Year: President Barack Obama
- The 9 Funniest Tweets About the Kimye Baby
- More Food for Hungry Students: USDA Tweaks School Meals
- Cliff Notes
- The Netbook Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Resting
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Sunday’s Political Ledes
- The Hunt for the Vicuña: Can This Andean Creature Be a Cash Cow?
- The Sunday Shows
- Hollywood Solves Its Fiscal Cliff Crisis: Hobbit, Django and Les Mis All Win Big
- Cliff Notes
- France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional
- Top 10 Les Mizzes Better Than the New Les Miz
- India Demands Change as It Mourns Gang-Rape Victim
- Saturday’s Political Ledes
- VIDEO: Ohio Traffic Reporter Bob Herzog’s “Dance Party Friday” Is Totally Crazy
- Cabinetry
- How Jennifer Lawrence and Tommy Lee Jones Made Our List of the Year’s Best Movie Performances
- Cartoons of the Week: December 22–28
- The Latest on 41
- The NBA New Year: A Tale of Two Sad Sacks
- 9 Mistakes You’re Making on LinkedIn
- Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland
- Kate Middleton’s Nose Most Requested Celeb Facial Feature in U.K.
- The Last Harvest: South African Vineyard Yields Much More Than Grapes
- The Top 5 Tech Biz Stories of 2012
- The TIME 2012 News Quiz
- What If America’s Best Ideas Were Behind It?
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 28: Fun with Rockets
- 9 Handy Financial Rules of Thumb
- Kerry for Markey
- Another Attempt to Clear the Field
- Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM’s Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
- VIDEO: SpaceX’s Grasshopper Rocket Goes up 131 Feet — and Comes Back Down
- December's Top Viral Videos
- Dead British Spy Probably Locked Himself into Duffel Bag
- 10 Big Retail Trends from the 2012 Holiday Shopping Season
- Study Hints at Potential Increased Risk of Cancer Among 9/11 Rescue Workers
- Rainbows in the Frame: Emblems of Hope in a Dark Year
- France’s Colonial Hangover: Apologizing Abroad, Ignoring Injustice at Home
- Avoid Sky-High Rates When You Take Flight
- Friday’s Political Ledes
- Starbucks Tries to Inspire a Fiscal Cliff Agreement with Cup Message
- Make the Job More Like a Game
- Burmese Democracy Icon’s Sweater Sells for $49,000
- The Top Money New Year’s Resolutions for 2013
- How the Fiscal Cliff Will Force Big Biz to Turn Against Small Biz
- Fewer US Banks Failing as Industry Strengthens
- Schoolchildren Send Thousands of Handmade Snowflakes to Sandy Hook
- The Business of Creativity: The Chocolate Makers
- How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick: Q&A with an Expert on Change
- This Dumb Year: The 57 Lamest Moments in Tech 2012
- Russia’s Adoption Politics: Defeated Families Caught in a Diplomatic Tailspin
- Vacation Robo-Post: TV to Look Forward to in 2013
- Shark Tank Bursts in Shanghai Mall, Injuring 15 People
- Thursday’s Political Ledes
- A Conversation about Economic Inequality
- Oh la Vache! Burger King Returns to France
- Keep Your Network Active
- Vietnam’s Blogosphere: The Battleground for Rival Factions of the Ruling Communists
- Cliff Notes: Unsticking
- Exclusive First Listen: Rosanne Cash Records ‘Lonesome River’ to Benefit Hurricane Sandy Victims
- Today in TIME Tech History: Bullet-Proof Vest (1926), Loch Ness Monster (1968), the Rise of Blogs (2004) and More
- How Nonprofits Convince Millennials to Give: Customize the Cause
- 5 Ways to Improve Meeting Productivity
- Hugh Jackman: Les Miz’s Leading Man Talks to TIME
- 2013: A Cloudy Forecast for Renewable Energy, with a Silver Lining
- Kate Winslet Weds Ned RocknRoll, Richard Branson’s Nephew
- Fleeing Civil War, Syria’s Kurds Enter Another Geopolitical Minefield
- Report Finds Small Decline in Food Ads Targeted at Children
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- The Flops: Cloud Atlas and the Year’s Other Terrible Movies
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 27: Married to Rocknroll
- States Show Improvements but Remain Unprepared for Public-Health Emergencies
- How Treating Wrinkles May Also Relieve Depression
- Carpool Democracy: Malaysians Prepare to Head Home for Landmark Elections
- Find Dennis Lehane’s Dog and Get a Part in His Next Crime Novel
- Toddlers’ Early Language Skills May Influence Later Anger Management
- The Great Housing Rebound of 2012: How the Fed Helped Sellers Beat the Odds
- What You Need to Know About Sugar
- Trouble Brewing: The Craft Beer Vs. ‘Crafty’ Beer Cat Fight
- Delta Airlines Receives 22,000 Applications for 300 Jobs
- One Writer’s Favorite Sports Moment of 2012. What’s Yours?
- The Winter Storm That Ruined Christmas (Travel): New Photos of the Fallout
- Morsi’s Next Move: Egypt’s President Got His Constitution, but Can He Fix the Economy?
- The Business of Creativity: The Chocolate Makers
- What a Park Presidency Means for South Korea’s Foreign Policy
- ‘Stormin’ Norman,’ 1934–2012
- Windows 8: Will Microsoft’s Latest Big Bet Pay Off?
- A Year of Photographers in the Picture
- Wednesday’s Political Ledes
- Report: Top Syrian General Joins Opposition
- WATCH: First Dog Bo Steals Show from Michelle Obama’s Holiday Reading
- Outrage After New York Paper Posts Map of Gun Owners’ Names and Addresses
- Why Is Turkey’s Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera?
- 6 Tips For How to Return (Almost) Anything
- Is This The Week We Eat The Most?
- Rosanne Cash: 'Lonesome River'
- 3-D Printing Has a Bright Future with Dark Problems
- Hagel Still Twisting
- Debating the New Environmentalism
- India: After New Delhi Gang Rape, Should the Culprits Be Executed?
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- From Pop-Up to Permanent: Five Popular London Restaurants That Are Here to Stay
- Today in TIME Tech History: UFO Sightings (1969), the LP Is Dead (1988), Interactive TV (1994) and More
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Don’t Hurt Your Own Cause
- Four Misconceptions About Taxes and the Deficit
- In Memoriam: Photographers Who Died in 2012
- WATCH: Tornado Descends on Southern Alabama, Exploding Power Transformers
- Unlikely Partners: Grateful Dead Drummer Teams with Scientist to Study How Rhythm Heals
- HTC One X+ Review: A Phone to Beat (If People Would Buy It)
- New Tablet or Smart Phone? Load It Up with These Great Apps
- Hone Your Leadership Skills
- China Opens World’s Longest High-Speed Rail Route
- And the Best Movie of 2012 Is …
- Vacation Robo-Post: The 2012 Cincy Awards
- Poll: What Word Should Be Banished in 2013?
- “Dystextia”: Garbled Text Messages Could Be Sign Of Stroke
- China’s Anti-Corruption Toolkit: No Flowers, Expensive Booze or ‘Empty Talk’
- Motivation, Not IQ, Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills
- Best Books 2012
- With the “Moose Sex Project” Canada Hopes To Make A Moose Love Connection
- Ancient Conehead-Like ‘Alien’ Skulls Unearthed In Mexico
- Why Hong Kong Is Cleaning Up at Sweden’s Santa Winter Games
- Top Grinchiest Stories of the 2012 Holiday Season
- Appreciation: The Odd Couple’s Jack Klugman, an Actor Who Could Crack Wise – with Heart
- The Santa Interviewed by Fox & Friends Apparently Belongs on the Naughty List
- The Secret to the Perfect Christmas Tree? Cloning, Say German Scientists
- Santa 24/7: Portrait of a Year-Round Father Christmas
- Bullying over Food Allergies
- Interview with Official of Jabhat Al-Nusra, Syria’s Islamist Militia Group
- WATCH: Festive Puppies Frolic Through Snow
- The Year of the Bad Call
- Assad’s Roll of the Dice: Is Winter Coming for the Syrian Rebellion?
- Must-Reads from Around the World
- Books
- Inbox
- Feeding Frenzy
- Pop Music
- What I Covet: McIntosh McAire Integrated Audio System
- Understanding Why Music Moves Us
- Inbox
- Vacation Robo-Post: The Worst TV of 2012
- Google and Bing Launch Competing Online ‘Santa Trackers’
- When CEOs Play Santa
- Lionel Messi
- Ditching the Chips: Study Finds Kids Give Cheese and Veggies the Thumbs Up
- Want to Know My Future?
- Why Does Canada Have a Maple-Syrup Cartel?
- Ravi Shankar
- General Disorders
- Ho Ho Hollywood: Celebrities Visit Santa
- Sandy Hook: After the Shooting, a Stricken Town Struggles On
- Why Is Congress Protecting the Gun Industry?
- TIME’s Best of 2012: The Photobooks We Loved
- Television
- Four Typical Holiday Money Fights–And How to Avoid Them
- The New Struggle for the ANC
- The Money Cop
- Movies
- Beauty for the Beasts: 11 Manly Skincare Lines
- Who's Afraid of a Constitution?
- The DNA Dilemma: A Test That Could Change Your Life
- Smoking: A Drag for Job Applicants?
- Want to Know My Future?
- Games
- Truly Last-Minute Holiday Shopping Options for Deal Hunters – Or the Merely Desperate
- Antarctica: It’s Getting Hot at the Bottom of the Planet
- The Baby Boom and Financial Doom
- Wrapped in Nietzsche and Gun Violence, Will Far Cry 3 Make It Under the Tree for Christmas?
- Jenni Rivera
- Monday’s Political Ledes
- Stay Classy: Britain’s Newest Scandal Is All About The Country’s Oldest Obsession
- Qatar Is Tiny and Rich, and it's Angling for Influence
- Milestones
- Diabetes Diet
- Parental Guidance: Should Be Rated R for Rotten
- Want to Know My Future?
- How Netflix Built Its Wii U App: First, It Built a Fake GamePad
- Get Ahead Without the Corporate Ladder
- Theater
- Big Brothers
- 10 Questions for Ian McKellen
- Grass Roots
- My, Oh Maya
- World
- Briefing
- Sunday’s Political Ledes
- A Hobbit Holiday: Bilbo Beats Babs and Tom
- The Sunday Shows
- It’s Festivus! Air Your Grievances on the Holiday for the Rest of Us
- PHOTOS: In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice
- Team Hagel Works Through the Weekend
- Saturday’s Political Ledes
- Steve Jobs’ Superyacht Impounded Over Unpaid Bill
- Sandy Hook Victim Dylan Hockley: A ‘Beautiful Butterfly’ Whose Life Was Cut Short
- Blizzard Barrels Through the Midwest [Photos]
- WATCH: Man Makes Gingerbread Replica of Downton Abbey
- It’s the Holidays. How to Handle the Inevitable Toddler Tantrums
- Apocalypse Illustrated
- UPS Employee Caught Stealing iPad Delivery
- Creamed by Congress: Farm Bill Inaction May Mean Higher Dairy Prices
- C’mon Ladies! Let’s Get With the Program!
- NRA Goes on the Record
- Team Hagel
- Milk for Kids: 2 Cups a Day, No More and No Less
- Depressing Pie Chart #2
- The Super-Duper, Planet-Frying, Exploding Star That’s Not Going to Hurt Us, So Please Stop Worrying About It
- Sibling Rivalry: Squabbling May Lead to Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, Among Teens
- Happy Holidays! (and Battleland Hiatus)
- When Will Military Kids Matter Enough?
- Viewpoint: Arming Teachers Isn’t the Answer
- Quartet: The Least Exotic Country Retirement Home
- Hell Freezes Over
- The Timing of the Fiscal Cliff
- Cartoons of the Week: December 15–21
- An Interview with Nechirvan Barzani: Will There Be an Independent Kurdistan?
- Les Misérables Director Tom Hooper on Choosing His Stars and Creating New Songs
- Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!?
- Reading While Eating for Dec. 21: Guns Blazing
- Free Advice for the People in These Stock Photos Who Are Grappling with Technology
- Programming Note
- John Boehner’s Unhappy Holidays
- Pizza Hut Singapore Introduces Double-Crust, ‘Double Sensation’ Pizza
- Late-Night Laughs: The 6 Best Comedy Clips of the Week
- Sandy Hook Shooting: The Speculation About Adam Lanza Must Stop
- Depressing Pie Chart #1
- From Boehner to McConnell
- Post Plan B
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