Monday, November 22, 2010

10 Most Popular Stories of the Week

10 Most Popular Stories

Who Will Be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year?

1. Who Will Be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year?

Take a look at this year's candidates (listed in alphabetical order) and give them your rating — though TIME's editors who choose the actual Person of the Year reserve the right to disagree

2. Gitmo Inmates Settlement: Why Britain Decided to Pay

By Nick Assinder / London

By agreeing to pay millions of dollars in compensation to Guantánamo detainees, the British government hopes to have secured the secrecy of its intelligence — and eased a strained relationship with the CIA

3. A New Planet — from Beyond the Galaxy

By Michael D. Lemonick

A new planet comes calling -- from very far away

4. Who Needs Marriage? A Changing Institution

By Belinda Luscombe

The state of our unions is shifting in unexpected ways. A TIME/Pew special report shows how income, age and experience alter our chances of wedded bliss

5. Is Coffee Losing Steam Among the Next Generation?

By Janet Morrissey

Energy drinks are replacing coffee as the favored drink of younger consumers, posing a marketing challenge

6. The 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century

TIME surveys the 25 women of the last one hundred years who have most influenced our world

7. Why Women Are Their Own Worst Enemy

By Kayla Webley

Kelly Valen, author of 'Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships,' talks about what she learned from thousands of women she surveyed, how to avoid raising mean girls and why she has opened up to having female friends again

8. The 50 Best Inventions of 2010

Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year's biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts

9. Underneath Haiti, Another Big Quake Waiting to Occur

By Tim Padgett / Port-au-Prince

Scientists have discovered that the Jan. 12 quake was caused by an unknown fault and that the one everyone expected to blow has yet to prove its terrifying potential

10. A Careless Man: What the Bush Memoir Reveals

By Joe Klein

George W. Bush's new memoir, 'Decision Points,' is telling and well written, but his overmatched presidency was a mess

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Pictures of the Week

Pictures of the Week

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Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton pose for the media at St. James's Palace in London, after they announced their engagement. The couple is to wed in 2011.

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