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New York Times’ most popular stories ever

"Thomas Friedman: I Kinda Wanna Make Out With China" -- and other classics

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New York Times' most popular stories ever

The New York Times online provides us with blissful hours of news browsing, not to mention countless opportunities to purchase Movado watches. The paper-of-record-gone-paperless also lets us all in on the truth about our real interests and priorities via the “MOST POPULAR” box on the homepage. So here, fellow Grey Lady groupies, is a list of the most e-mailed articles of all time.

  1. The Minimalist: Ramen Noodles With Salty Packet Sauce
  2. Poll Suggests Majority of Baby Boomers Intend to Cheat Death Indefinitely
  3. Well: How to Cheat Death Indefinitely: A Guide for Baby Boomers
  4. 36 Hours in the Gowanus Canal
  5. David Brooks: Research Is for Liberals
  6. Well: How to Burn Calories While Getting Your Kid Into a First-Tier College
  7. The Pour: Using Oenophile Jargon to Rationalize Ordering the Second Cheapest Bottle on the List
  8. Thomas Friedman: I Kinda Wanna Make Out with China
  9. Maureen Dowd: Inscrutable Fake Dialogue Utterly Devoid of Context
  10. A Thing Happened at Harvard
  11. Magazine Preview: A Slightly Different Take on an Increasingly Common Diagnosis
  12. Gail Collins: Shucks, I’m Adorable!
  13. The Lede: Liveblogging the Assistant Deputy Comptroller’s Debate
  14. Paul Krugman: Mr. Keynes, Please Stop Haunting My Dreams
  15. Nicholas D. Kristof: Disadvantaged Individual From Developing Nation Overcomes Staggering Adversity to Become a Much Better Person Than Any of You
  16. Modern Love: My Unrequited Crush on a Career in Narrative Nonfiction
  17. Frank Rich: Newsmaking Politician Is a Hopelessly Out-of-Touch Feckless Hack
  18. Tweeting Toward Bethlehem
  19. Magazine Preview: Photographs of Michael Pollan and Alice Waters Surrounded by Vibrant, Abundant, Organic Produce Grown Three Thousand Miles Away From New York City
  20. Lindsay Lohan Is the Name of a Movie Star
  21. Away From the Headlines, One-and-a-Half Wars Apparently Continue to Rage
  22. Editorial: The Lifeblood of Democracy and Western Civilization That Is Print Journalism Must Be Preserved at All Costs
  23. Vows: B-List Celebrity and Regular Person
  24. The Pour: The Best Wines for Getting Your Kid Into College
  25. The Minimalist: No-Cook Cheese on Store-Bought Bread

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  • Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
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  • Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
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  • A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
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  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
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  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
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  • O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
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  • Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
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  • When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
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