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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Magazine

The New York Times Magazine

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God Save the British Economy

What an austerity experiment can teach the United States and the rest of the world.

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A Soap Opera on the High Seas

What Andy Cohen is to over-the-top socialites and Mark Burnett is to game shows on South Pacific islands, Thom Beers is to blue-collar TV.

Feast in a Day

Mark Bittman and Sam Sifton show you how to cook an unforgettable holiday dinner in eight hours — and make the process itself a celebration.

Talk

Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker

The anchor says that CNN will always be a place for hard news, not fashion shows.

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Eureka

Crowds Are Not People, My Friend

The serious flaws with our tendency to think of crowds as sentient beings rather than groups of individuals.

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What’s a Store For?

A window into the soul of Barneys and the future of shopping.

It’s the Economy

Welcome to Saudi Albany?

Fracking isn’t just going to change the energy business; it could change every business. And that’s pretty scary.

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Look

The Color of War

A new view of an old conflict.

The One-Page Magazine

The Language of Uptalk

Cooking with Emily Dickinson; Hot Pockets of hope.

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Riff

Let My Tebow Go

The best argument to let Tim Tebow play has nothing to do with football. It has to do with Kierkegaard, Sartre’s existential nausea and a quest to embrace the absurd.

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Talk

Willie Nelson, the Silver-Headed Stranger

The singer and author of “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” on calming the rage and fighting bumblebees.

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Domains

Joy Behar’s Rooms With a View

The Bette Midler look-alike talks about her Phyllis Diller painting and baking lasagna for Whoopi.

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Lives

Why I Keep the Dearly Departed in My Address Book

Even though I know that they won’t call back.

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Solve the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine at our newly relaunched hub for New York Times crosswords.

Talk

Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker

The anchor says that CNN will always be a place for hard news, not fashion shows.

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Eureka

Crowds Are Not People, My Friend

The serious flaws with our tendency to think of crowds as sentient beings rather than groups of individuals.

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The One-Page Magazine

The Language of Uptalk

Cooking with Emily Dickinson; Hot Pockets of hope.

The Ethicist

Cat Custody

And the cat came back.

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Design

Who Made Those 3-D Glasses?

The beginnings of a fad that won’t die.

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From the Archive

When Animals Attack, Cars Crash and Stunts Go Bad

A 1998 article on Mike Darnell, who helped create reality-based “shockumentaries” for Fox television.

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Multimedia

Audio & Photos: There Will Be Foam

A sudsy party in Watertown, N.Y.

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Slide Show: Hollywood Heroines

Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world’s next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave the dreamiest performances of 2012.

Diagnosis

A Circus of Pain

Could a terrible headache have been caused by a run-in with a zebra?

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Wide-Awake

A video gallery of dreams and transformations, featuring 13 actresses whose performances defined the year in film.

The Enchanted Island of Centenarians

In Ikaria, people grow old — but forget to die.

Look
One Fish, Two Fish, Dead Fish, New Fish

Alaska’s yearly show of millions of sockeye salmon returning to spawn and die.

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