Monday, November 16, 2009

10 Most Popular Stories of the Week

10 Most Popular Stories

The 50 Best Inventions of 2009

1. The 50 Best Inventions of 2009

From a rocket of the future to a $10 million lightbulb, here are TIME's picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year

2. Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China

By bill powell / shanghai

While the U.S. remains mired in an economic funk, the Asian giant drives ceaselessly forward. On the eve of Obama's first visit there, a look at what the world's rising power can teach the U.S. now

3. Tech Buyer's Guide 2009

From the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 to monitor-friendly optical lenses, here are 20 new techie gadgets not to be missed

4. Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider?

By Eben Harrell

The Large Hadron Collider, outside Geneva, has been beset with delays and problems since 2006, when it was originally scheduled to launch. Are they portents from the future?

5. Behind the CDC's Soaring H1N1 Death Totals

By Alice Park

In the span of a week, the CDC's official tally of U.S. deaths from swine flu has tripled. But does that say anything about the severity of the disease?

6. 10 Best College Presidents

Ohio State's E. Gordon Gee and nine other dynamos at the nation's top schools

7. Good and Bad News for Boxing: Only One Pacquiao

By Howard Chua-Eoan / Las Vegas

The Filipino boxer wins by TKO in an electrifying match with Miguel Angel Cotto. But is it enough to save boxing?

8. Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games?

By Belinda Luscombe

Do you or your kids play FarmVille, Mafia Wars or Restaurant City? Then you may well have some unpleasant surprises on your cell-phone bill

9. The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist?

By Nancy Gibbs

When an Army major turns mass murderer on America's largest military base, it fuels the worst fear of terrorism experts: Are lone wolves who don't need an al-Qaeda training camp the new threat to homeland security?

10. 2012: End-of-World Disaster Porn

By Richard Corliss

'2012' director and co-writer Roland Emmerich, the king of end-of-world, disaster porn, wreaks kinetically irresistible havoc on the globe

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