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Newsweek

You Pointed. You Clicked
The 10 most popular stories on Newsweek.com for 2007

1. 'The Top of the Class'
Newsweek's annual survey of the leading public high schools in the country is eagerly anticipated by parents, teachers and students alike. How the top 1,300 schools stacked up.

2. 'Mean Girls'
Boozing, bikinis and bullying: How the scandalous behavior of five high-school cheerleaders rocked a bedroom community near Dallas.

3. 'Monster of the Deep'
It weighed in at 990 pounds. The inside story of how the world's largest squid was caught--and the bidding war for the exclusive footage of how a New Zealand fishing vessel hauled it in.

4. 'I Saw Bullet Holes Coming Through the Doors'
He almost cut French class. But Colin Goddard made the fateful decision to attend class at Virginia Tech that Monday morning--and wound up full of bullets. One student, caught in spree killer Seung-Hui Cho's deadly path.

5. 'Death in Perugia'
An Italian judge believes that a young Seattle woman instigated a vicious 'extreme sex' killing. Her friends say she is just a dorky sweetheart. The grim tale of Amanda Knox.

6. 'What Shawn Went Through'
Young Shawn Hornbeck had plenty of chances to flee his captor. So what made him stay? A look at how kidnap victims can be confined as much by psychological barriers as by physical ones.

7. 'Dream House or Nightmare?'
For years Americans custom-built homes expecting high returns on their investment. They're in for a letdown. Economists think the housing market peaked in late 2005. The median home price may make its first full-year fall since the Depression.

8. 'Cheerleaders. Soldiers. Booze. Sex.'
A National Guard recruiting mission gone awry shakes a South Carolina town to its core. And a cheerleading coach is charged with bad behavior.

9. '25 Hottest Schools'
It's an anxious time of year, when high-school seniors and their parents gear up for the admissions game. In excerpts from our annual newsstand issue, what you need to know about the newest trends.

10. 'Into Thin Air'
A Newsweek investigation reconstructs the six-year search for Osama bin Laden. It's a story of bold hopes, near misses and enduring fears.


Where the Image Is Everything
A startling slice of the FBI's Most Wanted list. Crime and passion. Gadget heaven. Newsweek.com's most popular photo galleries of 2007.

1. Really Bad Girls