Monday, December 22, 2008

10 Most Popular Stories of the Week

10 Most Popular Stories

Person of the Year 2008
Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME

1. Person of the Year 2008

For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME's Person of the Year.

2. Why Is Steve Jobs Skipping MacWorld?

By Josh Quittner

Apple's CEO will sit out MacWorld in January 2009, and the company says that expo will be the last that Apple will attend

3. Madoff Victims Look for Ways to Recover Their Money

By Stephen Gandel

Some of the defrauded investors are covered by federal insurance. Others are considering lawsuits

4. Punishment for the Shoe Thrower Puts al-Maliki in a Spot

By Rania Abouzeid

How punishing the journalist who hurled his shoes at Bush could affect the political standing of Iraq's Prime Minister

5. Mapping the Rats in New York City

By Christine Gorman / New York

Rats and cities have gone together since at least the Middle Ages. Now New York City is employing a high-tech tool — geocoding — to fight an age-old plague

6. Will Arne Duncan Shake Up America's Schools?

By Kathleen Kingsbury

In selecting the Chicago Public Schools CEO for his Education Secretary, Obama chooses a reformer who is also a consensus builder

7. How I Got Screwed by Bernie Madoff

By Robert Chew

The call came at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11. I had been waiting for it for five years

8. Is It Healthy for Couples to Travel Apart?

By Judy McGuire

Is choosing to travel without your partner the sign of a doomed relationship — or a healthy one?

9. Texas Braces for an Oil Bust

By Hilary Hylton

The oil-and-gas industry accounts for almost 16% of the Texas GDP — and that means any slowdown in that sector will have a ripple effect on the state's economy

10. The Planet Gets Cooler in '08. Say What?

By Bryan Walsh

La Niña may have made average temperatures in 2008 cooler than the years immediately prior, but the warming trend continues

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