DECADES END
DECADE'S END: China's rise 
Country reshapes the worldChina’s bold rise this decade took many forms. The Beijing Olympics. The billions of dollars lent to the U.S. The rip-roaring economic growth.
By William Foreman , December 27, 2009
DECADE'S END: Uncertainty after an economic whiplash
Most never saw the collapse of the First Bubble coming. Or the rise of the Second Bubble behind it that made its predecessor seem almost quaint. Or the Great Recession that seeded fears of — perish the thought — the Next Bubble.
By Adam Geller , December 27, 2009
DECADE'S END: Challenges continue in climate change journey
Early in the decade, the president of the United States, the biggest emitter, blamed "incomplete" science for the U.S. stand against rolling back emissions, as other industrial nations were trying to do. As the decade wore on and emissions grew, American reasoning leaned more toward the economic.
By Charles J. Hanley , December 20, 2009
- DECADE'S END: Greenland iceberg (2007)
- DECADE'S END: Using wood as fuel (2009)
- DECADE'S END: Climate conference in India (2009)
- DECADE'S END: Ferry ride in Tokyo (2009)
- DECADE'S END: Canoeing through Nigerian slum (2009)
- DECADE'S END: View from Egyptian breakwater (2007)
- DECADE'S END: Climate change
DECADE'S END: The natural disaster made worse by man
Things like that don't happen here, we told ourselves. In the Third World, yes, but not in the United States. We were wrong.
By Allen G. Breed , December 19, 2009
Social networking: A 2000s timeline
Milestones in social networking over the past decade.
By Associated Press , December 14, 2009
DECADE'S END: Tweets, friends, hands bring social networks to 2000s forefront
"In the 1980s, I was a fan of the handwritten letter. By the '90s, I often used e-mail because it was easier and more immediate," AP reporter Martha Irvine writes. "This decade, despite my best intentions, my communications have gotten increasingly short, often circulated on Facebook, Twitter or by text message. Like I said, efficient, effective — but not without a price."
By Martha Irvine , December 14, 2009
DECADE'S END: The political 2000s: From hanging chads to fist bumps ... and beyond
In two improbable elections that serve as bookends to the decade, Americans elected — barely — a pedigreed president following in his father's footsteps and then — surprisingly easily — a trailblazer who symbolically closed the nation's long festering wounds over race relations.
By Nancy Benac , December 13, 2009
IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN: A decade of war
Scholars and pundits can analyze the strategic outcomes and judge the winners and losers from a safe distance. But there is none of that as war unfolds. There are just moments.
By Brian Murphy , December 06, 2009
- DECADE'S END: 'Mission accomplished' (2003)
- DECADE'S END: Marines in Afghanistan (2009)
- DECADE'S END: Iraqi boys with toy guns (2009)
- DECADE'S END: Looters in Baghdad (2003)
- DECADE'S END: Baghdad looters scramble for cash (2003)
- DECADE'S END: Baghdad children at play (2008)
- DECADE'S END: Car bombs in Baghdad (2009)
- Wars’ moments at a glance
- DECADE'S END: The wars
DECADE'S END: 'Memory’ remains potent word 8 years after 9/11
One simple notion. Here, some version of it appears on most everything you see — sewn into ballcaps, lovingly painted upon stones, scrawled on sheets of paper. “Never forget.” “Remember the fallen.” “Always in our hearts.” The words vary, but the meaning stays the same.
By Ted Anthony , December 05, 2009
- DECADE'S END: United Flight 93 memorial (2002)
- DECADE'S END: Flight 93 memorial visit (2005)
- DECADE'S END: Teddy for an 'angel' (2002)
- DECADE'S END: United Flight 93 crash site (2001)
- DECADE'S END: Flag commemorating Flight 93 (2007)
- DECADE'S END: Terrorism and United Flight 93
- A DIFFERENT WORLD: Terrorism in the 2000s
A DIFFERENT WORLD: Terrorism in the 2000s
Major lethal terrorist attacks outside of active war zones in the past decade:
By Associated Press , December 05, 2009
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