Monday, April 20, 2009

10 Most Popular Stories of the Week

10 Most Popular Stories

What's All That Secession Ruckus in Texas?
Peter Silva / Zuma
Republican Texas governor Rick Perry speaks at Austin City Hall protesting excessive government spending and bailouts as part of 'tea party' demonstrations across the country

1. What's All That Secession Ruckus in Texas?

By Hilary Hylton / Austin

The Lone Star State doesn't really want to split off. Its governor is just prepping for a tough war against fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchinson

2. Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away

By Mark Thompson / Washington

The Maersk Alabama pirates were shot from 30 yards away. Future abductors might be accurately targeted from a much greater distance — if the Pentagon gets the gun it wants

3. The Great Recession: America Becomes Thrift Nation

By Nancy Gibbs

The economic downturn is transforming how we spend, whom we trust, where we save and what we really value

4. Marilyn Chambers, the Ivory Snow Porn Star, Dead at 56

By Richard Corliss

The actress was discovered last night in her mobile home in Santa Clarita, near Los Angeles, by her teenage daughter

5. What the World Will Look Like by 2050

By Alyssa Fetini

In his new book, Jacques Attali takes a look at mankind's future by midcentury — and it's not pretty

6. What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades

By Anita Hamilton

A new survey suggests that college students who use the online social network have significantly lower grades than students who don't

7. How to Raise the Standard in America's Schools

By Walter Isaacson

Our students are falling behind their counterparts in the rest of the world, threatening the U.S.'s economic future. Why national education standards are the only way to fix the system

8. New Rules for Russia's Cops: No Bribes or Wild Sex

By John Wendle / Moscow

A new code of conduct for Russia's police seeks to spell out exactly what officers can and can't get away with

9. How Somalia's Fishermen Became Pirates

By Ishaan Tharoor

Somalia's pirates didn't all start out that way. Some were fishermen driven to high-seas crime when foreign fishing fleets began plundering Somalia's coast and destroying their livelihoods

10. Canned Ham, Going Once, Twice: A Rise in Grocery Auctions

By Sean Gregory

Auctioneers need new revenues sources. Consumer want cheap food. Start the bidding on the bananas

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