Monday, November 30, 2009

10 Most Popular Stories of the Week

10 Most Popular Stories

The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
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1. The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell

By Andy Serwer

Bookended by 9/11 and a financial wipeout, the first 10 years of the century will likely go down as the most dispiriting decade Americans have lived through since World War II. Can the next one be better?

2. The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting

By Nancy Gibbs

Overparenting got way out of control in the past generation. But now a band of rebels is trying to restore some balance and sanity to family life and help bring all those anxious helicopter parents down for a soft landing

3. Sex, Please, We're British: London's Erotica Expo

By Catherine Mayer

Britain has always had a slightly uncomfortable relationship with sex. But you wouldn't know it by the thousands of visitors at the annual sex expo in London

4. Energizer Bunnies: Turning Rabbits into Green Fuel

By Tara Kelly

Facing a soaring rabbit population, Sweden comes up with a novel way of heating its homes

5. 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

6. Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge

By Joe Klein

The media are giving Obama grief for just about everything. But it's far too soon to judge his policies

7. Germany's Doubts About Afghanistan Grow After Revelations About Air Strike

By Henning Hoff

Germany sees a wave of resignations over leaked reports that German officials knew about civilian casualties soon after a German-ordered attack on two tanker trucks in Afghanistan in September — but then lied about it

8. Super-Crocodiles May Have Dined on Dinosaurs

By Michael D. Lemonick

An odd new species of ancient crocodiles stood on two legs, lived alongside dinosaurs and sometimes even hunted them

9. Will Private Equity Be the Next Meltdown?

By Barbara Kiviat

Private-equity firms, such as Blackstone, KKR and Carlyle, have bought thousands of companies over the past decade using mostly debt. In a new book, author Josh Kosman argues that these leveraged acquisitions will produce the next financial meltdown

10. The Dark Side of Darwin's Legacy

By Eben Harrell

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, political journalist Dennis Sewell talks to TIME about how the naturalist's big idea has been harnessed for sinister ends

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