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Every story this desk has ever published, in the order it happened,
which is the only order any of it was any good in. Months with more than one story are months
when more than one thing happened, which was rare.
2004 (15 stories)
December 26, 2004 WORLD An Earthquake In The Indian Ocean Generates A Wave And Then A Day Of News ★ FEATURED November 20, 2004 WORLD The Occupation, In One Year, In One Number November 3, 2004 POLITICS Incumbent Re-elected After A Recount, In A Race Decided In Ohio ★ FEATURED October 5, 2004 INTERNET The Websites That Paid For Themselves With Their Own Readers September 20, 2004 WORLD Two And A Half Years Of Iraq, In One Paragraph That Took Nineteen Seconds To Say August 30, 2004 POLITICS The Republican Convention Nominates A Governor August 19, 2004 BUSINESS Search Engine Files For IPO, Is Valued At More Than Ford And General Motors ★ FEATURED July 15, 2004 POLITICS Nobody Is Going To Win This One And Everybody Knows It June 13, 2004 WORLD European Elections Deliver A Parliament Of Five Blocs May 12, 2004 INTERNET A Search Engine Is Being Sued By The People It Found May 5, 2004 WORLD Photographs Of Prisoners Published On A Page Of A Newspaper Of The Country That Took Them ★ FEATURED April 22, 2004 WORLD Everyone Has A Number And No Two Numbers Agree ★ FEATURED March 11, 2004 WORLD Ten Bombs On Four Trains In Madrid, And A Government That Blames Somebody Else ★ FEATURED February 1, 2004 WORLD Six Seconds Of Video, And The Argument That Followed January 20, 2004 INTERNET The Web Is Thirteen And It Has A Memory Problem
2003 (13 stories)
December 20, 2003 WORLD A Quiet Year That Was Not Quiet November 15, 2003 INTERNET The Websites That Are Only On The Websites October 20, 2003 INTERNET Blogs Hit One Hundred Thousand And Nobody Agrees What To Call Them September 11, 2003 WORLD Two Years On, The News Of Iraq Is A Number Of People Who Are Not In The Pictures August 14, 2003 WORLD Power Cut Takes Down Ohio And Ontario And Northeast For Nine Days ★ FEATURED July 9, 2003 WORLD The Month The Word 'Regime' Started Doing A Lot Of Work June 21, 2003 SPACE A Privately Built Spacecraft Makes Its First Powered Flight ★ FEATURED May 1, 2003 POLITICS The President Declares Major Combat Operations In Iraq Complete ★ FEATURED April 9, 2003 WORLD Baghdad Falls. A Statue Comes Down. A Channel Becomes The Most Famous In The World. March 20, 2003 WORLD Invasion Of Iraq Begins With 2,000 Strikes And A 33-Hour Ultimatum March 15, 2003 WORLD A New Disease Is Being Tracked From Hong Kong To Toronto ★ FEATURED February 1, 2003 SPACE Shuttle Breaks Apart Returning To Earth, Killing All Seven ★ FEATURED January 20, 2003 SPACE Shuttle Finally Launches After Four Scrubs, To A Crowd That Has Learned Not To Leave
2002 (17 stories)
December 20, 2002 BUSINESS The Year Ends With The Economy Explaining Itself November 23, 2002 SPORTS Cricket World Cup Ends Level, For The First Time In Its History October 23, 2002 WORLD Gunmen Take Over Moscow Theatre, Hold 700, Threaten October 12, 2002 WORLD Bombings In Bali Kill Over Two Hundred, Most Of Them Foreigners ★ FEATURED September 3, 2002 WORLD The Biggest Environmental Meeting Since Rio Ends With A Full Room Of Politicians And No Binding Text August 20, 2002 WORLD A Quiet Month, Which We Have Decided To Cover At Length July 21, 2002 BUSINESS WorldCom Files For Bankruptcy, Having Declared $3.8 Billion Of Expenses As Revenue ★ FEATURED July 14, 2002 SPORTS Commonwealth Games Open In Manchester With A Barge That Has To Be Wheeled Into Place June 30, 2002 SPORTS Brazil Wins The World Cup, And Ronaldo Finishes The Match He Would Not Start ★ FEATURED May 31, 2002 SPORTS World Cup Opens In Japan And South Korea With 32 Teams From Six Continents May 13, 2002 WORLD Gunmen Storm Indian Parliament Building During State Visit April 20, 2002 TECH Microsoft Unveils A Tablet Computer With A Pen April 1, 2002 POLITICS Netherlands Becomes First Country To Legalise Same-Sex Marriage March 12, 2002 BUSINESS Argentina's Currency Is Unpegged In Four Days And The Country Stops February 8, 2002 SPORTS Winter Olympics Open In Salt Lake City With A Debt And A Prayer January 28, 2002 POLITICS President Names An Axis In A Speech To Congress ★ FEATURED January 1, 2002 BUSINESS Twelve Countries Begin Using A Currency Nobody Has To Learn
2001 (15 stories)
December 7, 2001 WORLD The Government Of Afghanistan Is Finished, Over Radio December 2, 2001 BUSINESS Enron Files For Bankruptcy, Its Share Price Having Been $90 In August ★ FEATURED November 16, 2001 CULTURE The Boy With The Glasses Is Released, And A Generation Loses Its Nerve October 20, 2001 WORLD Letters Containing Powder Sent To Senators And Newsrooms October 7, 2001 WORLD Ground Forces Enter Afghanistan September 11, 2001 WORLD Hijackers Destroy Two Aircraft And A Third Collides With A Field In Pennsylvania ★ FEATURED August 6, 2001 INTERNET The Web Is Ten Years Old ★ FEATURED July 14, 2001 WORLD Police Raid Offices Of Danish Company In Amsterdam June 6, 2001 WORLD Ntro Ends Its Watch Over Kosovo May 23, 2001 WORLD Two Quakes In Peru Kill At Least 130 May 20, 2001 POLITICS Taiwan's First Civilian President Takes Office After Four Decades Of Military Rule April 1, 2001 WORLD Mid-Air Collision Over The South China Sea Costs 24 Crew March 23, 2001 WORLD Suicide Attack On Pakistani Hotel Kills Dozens; Neighbours Blame A Country February 16, 2001 POLITICS Senate Acquits President Clinton, Ending The Shortest Trial In History January 1, 2001 WORLD Hello, Three Thousand
2000 (12 stories)
December 31, 2000 TECH The Year Two Thousand Ends, Quietly, For The Second Time November 7, 2000 POLITICS A Close Presidential Election Is Settled By 537 Votes And Four Days ★ FEATURED October 11, 2000 POLITICS First Presidential Debate: Both Candidates Blame The Software September 15, 2000 WORLD Sydney Olympics Open With A Budget Already Overspent August 12, 2000 WORLD Submarine Sinks With 118 Aboard; Rescue Ship Is Refused July 25, 2000 WORLD Concorde Crashes On Landing, Killing 113 ★ FEATURED June 14, 2000 INTERNET Two College Students Start A File-Sharing Service Nobody Asked For And Everybody Uses May 1, 2000 WORLD Cuban Boy Is Returned To His Father At School, After 126 Days ★ FEATURED April 20, 2000 WORLD Teacher And Two Students Killed At School In Kentucky ★ FEATURED March 10, 2000 BUSINESS Dot-Com Bubble Peaks At Precisely The Moment Everybody Says It Is A Bubble February 18, 2000 TECH Judge Orders Microsoft To Stop Bundling The Internet With Windows January 1, 2000 TECH The World Wakes Up, Blinks Twice, And Goes Back To Bed ★ FEATURED
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