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A Michigan school district barred the Sikh kirpan in late 2010 after a fourth-grader carried one to class, sparking debate over faith and zero-tolerance.

Facebook Addiction Disorder was a 2009 media invention, not a real diagnosis. Compulsive social media use is studied - but FAD was never in any manual.

After Punjab governor Salman Taseer's assassination in January 2011, fears grew for Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row for blasphemy.

A lasting marriage isn't always a happy one. Research on self-expansion suggests the happiest couples are the ones still learning together.

A 2011 UK report found grooming gangs were disproportionately Pakistani-origin — and that fear of seeming racist had silenced police and social workers.

In December 2010, Roslyn High School handed 47 iPads to students in two classes — an early test of whether tablets could replace textbooks.

A BVA-Gallup survey ranked France among the world's least happy nations and India among the most optimistic. Subjective wellbeing is about expectations.

Marital drift — the slow divergence of two people sharing a house — is the least dramatic and most common reason long marriages end. Why it happens.

Mandatory HIV tests for foreign teachers — but not ethnic Koreans — reignited a debate about xenophobia in South Korea. A look back at the 2010 controversy.

Don't bank calories, savor what's special, and build in movement: practical, non-guilt-laden guidance for navigating the season's abundance.

A 2010 salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts sickened 94 people across 16 states — a reminder that even 'healthy' food carries real risks.

In 2010 the internet's best promise was unglamorous: skilled amateurs finding audiences that print's gatekeepers never anticipated.

Quitting smoking doesn't just prevent disease — research shows ex-smokers' mood, anxiety, and wellbeing eventually match people who never smoked.

Thinner, lighter, cameras at last, a faster chip: the late-2010 iPad 2 rumor mill turned out to be mostly right when Apple delivered in March 2011.

In 2010 Google paid $1.9 billion for 111 Eighth Avenue in New York — a decade after its NYC team began as one person working from a Starbucks.

Amitabh Bachchan and Prateik Babbar cast together in Prakash Jha's Aarakshan. The news revived memories of Smita Patil, who died at 31 in 1986.

The 2010 Gawker breach exposed how millions of people pick passwords. A look at the worst offenders — and why reusing passwords is the real danger.

Forbes India named Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar its 2010 Person of the Year, honoring one of modern India's most remarkable governance turnarounds.

2G, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh, the Radia tapes: 2010 was the year India's scandals made Caesar's standard of probity look naive.

Pakistani label Uth Oye put Jinnah on a 'Dude, Where's My Car?'-inspired T-shirt: 'Ashton just lost his car. This poor guy lost a whole country.'