New Year, New Top 10 List
The best-read stories and photo galleries on Newsweek.com during the week ending Jan. 4
'A Century of Medical Oddities'
A photographic tour of some of the 20,000 items in Philadelphia's Mütter Museum

'Animals of the Year'
Smart primates, millionaire dogs and one colossal squid--just a few of 2007's nonhuman headliners

'Top Seven Health Myths'
The straight story on everything from postmortem hair growth to Halloween candy hazards

'Booze Blunders'
Still nursing your New Year's hangover? Here are six tips on teetotaler etiquette for the next party.

'Big Homes, Big Problems'
How the size of our homes inflated the nation's ongoing housing crisis

'What a Tiger Sees'
They're not territorial, but they react strongly to any changes in their environment.

'Who Can Win?'
Jonathan Alter's guide to the candidates''electability' next November

'Wealth and Waistlines'
A new book explains how the obesity epidemic has been shaped by economics.

'Getting In Gets Harder'
The children of the baby boomers are flooding colleges with applications.

'A Hero for Democracy?'
Benazir Bhutto may become in death what she never achieved in life.

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Medical Oddities in Focus

Skeletons of conjoined twins, President Grover Cleveland's tumor and 2,000 items retrieved from patients' throats: these are just some of the more than 20,000 unusual objects that make up the collection at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum. Archival images from the museum were recently collected in a book, "Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs." See the photos.

Highlights:
And the Oscar for best post-caucus theater goes to ... Find out on Stumper, Andrew Romano's U.S. election blog.

When the market turns bearish, it's a perfect time for billionaires to go hunting for bargains, says Daniel Gross.

Whether it's Pakistan, Iran or China, for the latest analysis of global events, read Fareed Zakaria.

Pakistan's government may be lying about Bhutto's death, explain Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball.

Why did hundreds of scientists admit they were wrong? Find out on Sharon Begley's science blog, Lab Notes.


Popularity Index:

1. Photos: A Century of Medical Oddities
Images from the Mutter Museum's collection of bizarre and historic medical photographs.

2. Photos: Animals of the Year
The animals that made news in 2007, including a supersmart chimp and a clairvoyant cat.

3. Top Seven Health Myths
A new study shows that even doctors fall prey to common medical misconceptions.

4. A Family Affair
Benazir Bhutto's will names her 19-year-old son as her successor.

5. 'This Was Negligence'
Is Pakistan's government telling the truth about Bhutto's death?

6. Big Homes, Big Problems
How ballooning home sizes helped inflate the housing crisis.

7. Can Musharraf Survive?
Benazir Bhutto's assassination has diminished the Pakistani president's already low public standing.

8. Wealth and Waistlines
A new book explains how the obesity epidemic has been shaped by economics.

9. What About the Nukes?
Despite its claims, Pakistan's nuclear weapons are vulnerable.

10. A Hero for Democracy?
The martyred Bhutto may become in death what she never achieved in life.


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