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...NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson cruised into the history books. With his fifth-place finish in the Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Johnson clinched the top spot in The Chase, NASCAR's ten-race playoff season that crowns the overall Sprint Cup champion. Johnson, 34, became the first racer in NASCAR history to win four straight titles in its top circuit, a feat that fuels the inevitable question: is this guy the greatest racer of all-time? Johnson took a victory lap in New York City, and sat down with TIME to talk about his training regimen...
...International, because of concerns over rampant piracy off its coasts and the crumbling government. More troubling for the U.S. and its allies, Afghanistan, viewed as the second most corrupt nation, is up three spots from 2008, as its Taliban insurgency has worsened. Iraq, still bedeviled by reconstruction woes, placed fifth...
...chicken in red curry sauce that Schwan's is now eager to pack in dry ice and leave on people's doorsteps. "We're going to film with [French culinary legend] Joël Robuchon and then put out some frozen dinners?" asks Wong, who has just finished her fifth season as a culinary producer on the show. Her honesty about Bravo's branding deal may have something to do with the fact that neither she nor the five other Top Chef contestants whose recipes and faces are being used by Schwan's are getting paid for them...
Aksamit finished fifth in the country in the sabre last year and helped her team to a national championship—something Vloka wants to bring back to Harvard...
...than three weeks it has earned $486.9 million worldwide, 71% coming from overseas. (The movie has something for folks everywhere: Europe and Asia get destroyed along with the U.S.) After biding its time since early November, A Christmas Carol saw a 30% bump from the previous weekend, to finish fifth. Audiences decided, since they had started their Christmas shopping, that it might be time to see a holiday movie. Robert Zemeckis' CGI spectacular, which cost at least $200 million (as did 2012), still has a way to go to break even: 26 moviegoing days until Dec. 25. (See cinematic visions...