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Monday, Dec 27, 1999 5:00 PM UTC1999-12-27T17:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Best of Salon 1999: People’s Choice

Part one: Smelly Macs, Linux revolutionaries, spankers, Web-cam operators and George W. Bush -- your clicks made these articles hits.

Herewith, our list of Salon’s 50 most popular stories in 1999, based on cumulative volume of Web traffic. Each day this week we’ll add 10 to the list, counting down to the most-read articles of the year. And don’t miss our “Editor’s Pick” list — a handpicked selection of Salon’s best work from 1999.

50. True tales of topless
Sophie and the bird nest breasts
By Amy Reiter

The Sun newspaper catches Rhys-Jones with her shirt off; his Nastiness goes after her Rodhamness.

[05/27/99 -- People]

49. Eau de Mac By Janelle Brown
Apple’s new G4 has a sleek look — and a strange scent.

[09/15/99 -- Technology]

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Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 9:15 PM UTC2012-02-14T21:15:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Love’s fumbles

How did three celebrity fights go down? Belle Boggs, Ben Greenman, Caitlin Horrocks & Alix Ohlin imagine the scenes

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It’s Valentine’s Day, perhaps the sappiest day of the year for couples. But it’s also a good day to remember that being part of a couple is hard — and that no one other than those two people truly understands what goes on or why it works.

So Salon asked four top novelists to look at celebrity couples in the news recently either for a split or a disagreement and imagine the back story. What went wrong? What was really said?

Just click on the links below to read the stories:

Whip-It by Belle Boggs and Richard D. Allen

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 3:15 AM UTC2012-02-12T03:15:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Whitney Houston dies at 48

A look back at the glorious career and biggest hits of the troubled pop diva

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Singer Whitney Houston is shown during the Whitney Houston "I Look To You" CD Listening Party held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday July 23, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.

Singer Whitney Houston is shown during the Whitney Houston "I Look To You" CD Listening Party held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday July 23, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.

Before the tragic tabloid headlines, the “crack is wack” denials and the tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown, pop/soul diva Whitney Houston towered over the music world in the mid-1980s and early ’90s.

Houston died Saturday in Beverly Hills, on the eve of the Grammy Awards. She was 48.

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Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-08T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Is work worth it?

Unemployment brings soul-searching. In a new episode of our video series, the jobless share surprising priorities

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Certain experiences will always force a reevaluation of life’s priorities. The birth of a child, a near-death experience — or getting fired. The latest episode of Salon’s video series on unemployment in America begins with Theresa Iacovo, a laid-off truck dispatcher, reminiscing on all of the Christmases she missed during her 20-year career. “Why did I give up that time with my family that I can never give back?” she asks.

Several recent submissions to Open Salon on the topic of unemployment also question the relationship between personal fulfillment and work. Homeless Scribe aptly sums up the source of much frustration: “Fresh out of college, I expected job security in exchange for hard work. I expected fairness in exchange for loyalty. And I expected respect in exchange for respect. I lived up to my side of the bargain. It’s the other side that failed.”

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Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012 7:00 PM UTC2012-02-07T19:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Salon readers: Tell us your love woes

Next week, our Valentine's Day experts will prescribe classic literature for your problems. Here's how to submit

Authors Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly.

Authors Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly.

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Love woes are timeless — so why not look to literature’s most lasting works for advice on how to deal with them?

In their new book, “Much Ado About Loving,” authors Maura Kelly and Jack Murnighan do just that. Next week, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re bringing their expertise — and the innumerable literary examples at their fingertips — to you.

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Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012 1:12 PM UTC2012-02-07T13:12:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Steve Kornacki on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”

President Obama gets some of the best polling news of his term, but will it last?

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Keith Olbermann was back in his usual seat on “Countdown” Monday night. First up: a segment on on Barack Obama’s improving poll numbers and reelection outlook with Salon’s Steve Kornacki:

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