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Photographs by Emiliano Mancuso / Grazia Neri
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Famously Unmarried
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Photographs by Alixandra Fazzina for TIME
Viewers Having Fun at The Office
The hit NBC comedy The Office invites viewers to submit photos of the high jinks in their own work spaces. Here's a gallery of the best submissions
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Refugees Flee Fighting in the Swat Valley
Hundreds of thousands are displaced by fighting between the Taliban and the Pakistani army
Our World at War
The International Committee of the Red Cross asks five great photojournalists to document eight conflicts where the group's work remains vital
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Photos by Blind Photographers
A spectacular new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside raises extraordinary questions about the nature of sight
A Brief History of the Hubble Space Telescope
The space shuttle Atlantis is making the final maintenance-and-repair mission to the Hubble Telescope, which has offered Earthlings a closer look at the cosmos since 1990. A look back at the telescope's remarkable life and achievements.
Celebrating 50 Years of the Mini
Looking back over the past half century of a British design icon.
Star Trek's Most Notorious Villains
In boldly going where no man has gone before, the crew of the Enterprise (and its successors) have battled evil in many forms
Republican Memorabilia
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Photographs by Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
Judd Apatow's War on Jay Leno
The director takes aim at the comedian — and TIME 100 no-show — and recruits other celebrities to his cause
The Vatican and the Jews
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Confrontation in the Swat Valley
Pakistani forces prepare to take on the Taliban in the volatile northern districts
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