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1 .02.17 CLEARANCE Uf» 2000-2009 Vr$ 235 11-16-13 U !16 mi $ il I ■ II • Hi I nil lit I 99349118U THE DECADE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD $39.95 LIFE THE DECADE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD WE MEASURE OUR HISTORY in terms of erasand epochs, Loaning a personality to cer¬ tain periods—the Industrial Age, the Roaring ’20s, the American Century and so on. What to make, then, of the past 10 years, a time of extraordinary events and seismic shifts? The first decade of the new millennium will clearly stand in the American mind-set alongside the waryears of the 1940sand the social turmoil of the 1960s as a time of critical significance to the United States and, indeed, the global community. Do we call it the Tumultuous Decade? The Years of Upheaval? The Decade That Changed the World? It certainly was that. From the beginning, with the contested presidential election of 2000, America was looking hard at itself and the road ahead. How badly divided are we? Wherearewe headed?Then camethe horrific events of September 11, 2001, and nothing would be quite the same thereafter. Not since Pearl Harbor had we been attacked on our own soil, and 9/11 put us on a wartime footing again. We engaged Osama bin Laden's allies in Afghanistan and then followed that with the attack on Saddam Hussein's despotic regime in Iraq, and the U.S. remains active in both theaters today. Natural cataclysms that were continu¬ ously shaking the planet paraded forth: the tsunami, Katrina, the Chinese earthquake. Unprecedented events took place, as the pope visited Jerusalem and the American electorate chose a black President. Illusions [continued on the back flap1 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/20002009decadeth0000unse . 5 * m jf 1m W o^J :J.. Mm I, % wwm l [ ■■ 1 tM 1 ’ * L fmm ji y| T|l I I ■n r i ii j 11 ijgj ijj 1 a fir - fM ■ 1 • I • I LIFE Books Editorial Operations Richard K. Prue (DirectorI, Published by LIFE Books Editor Robert Sullivan Brian Fellows [ManagerI, Keith Aurelio, Charlotte Time Inc. Director of Photography Barbara Baker Burrows Coco, John Goodman, Kevin Hart, Norma Jones, 1271 Avenue of the Americas Art Directors Richard Baker, Anke Stohlmann Mert Kerimoglu, Rosalie Khan, Patricia Koh, Marco New York, NY 10020 Deputy Picture Editor Christina Lieberman Lau, Brian Mai, Po Fung Ng, Lorenzo Pace, Rudi Papiri, Copyright © 2009 by Time Inc. Home Entertainment Writer-Reporter HildegardAnderson Robert Pizaro, Barry Pribula, Clara Renauro, Donald Copy Editors Danielle Dowling (Chief], Schaedtler, Hia Tan, Vaune Trachtman, David Weiner All rights reserved. No part of this book may be Barbara Cogan, Parian McGaw reproduced in any form or by any electronic or Consulting Picture Editors Mimi Murphy (Rome], Special thanks to Christine Austin, Glenn Buonocore, mechanical means, including information storage Tala Skari (Paris] Jim Childs, Susan Chodakiewicz, Rose Cirrincione, and retrieval systems, without permission in writing Jacqueline Fitzgerald, Lauren Hall, Jennifer Jacobs, from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may President Andrew Blau Brynn Joyce. Mona Li, Robert Marasco, Amy Migliaccio, quote brief passages in a review. Business Manager Roger Adler Brooke Reger, Dave Rozzelle, llene Schreider, Business Development Manager Jeff Burak Adriana Tierno, Alex Voznesenskiy, Sydney Webber, ISBN 13: 978-1-60320-128-5 Jonathan White ISBN 10: 1-60320-128-9 Time Inc. Home Entertainment Library of Congress Control Number: 2009936883 Publisher Richard Fraiman General Manager Steven Sandonato "LIFE" is a trademark of Time Inc. Executive Director, Marketing Services Carol Pittard We welcome your comments and suggestions Director, Retail & Special Sales Tom Mifsud about LIFE Books. Please write to us at: Director, New Product Development Peter Harper LIFE Books Assistant Director, Bookazine Marketing Attention: Book Editors Laura Adam PO Box 11016 Assistant Publishing Director, Brand Marketing Des Moines, IA 50336-1016 Joy Butts Associate Counsel Helen Wan If you would tike to order any of our hardcover Book Production Manager Suzanne Janso Collector's Edition books, please call us at Design & Prepress Manager Anne-Michelle Gallero 1-800-327-6388 (Monday through Friday, Brand Manager RoshniPatel 7:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., or Saturday, 7:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m., Central Time). LIFE 2000-2009 THE DECADE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Introduction. 6 Of the Moment. 48 2007 84 2000 . 8 2004 . 52 2008. 2001 . 18 2005 . 62 2009 . 2002 . 28 2006 . 72 Farewell 2003 . 36 Of the Moment 80 Page 1:Thomas E. Franklin [September 11,2001] Pages 2-3: John David Mercer/Mobile Register/Polaris (Hurricane Katrina) These pages: Alessandro Travoti/AP (Lance Armstrong, in the yellow jersey, in the 2005 Tourde France) THEDECADETHATCHANGEDTHEWORLD THERE HAVE BEEN DECADES IN American history that instantly con¬ jure the one dominating story. Think of the 1920s, and you can hear the Jazz Age roar. Think of the '30s, and images of bread lines and the Dust Bowl imme¬ diately come to mind. With the 1940s, war thunders. If we consider the 1960s, there are various things—Vietnam, the civil rights movement, campus unrest—that combine to create an overarching impression of a society tearing itself apart. With the first decade of the 21st century—the 10 years just now ending—we are confronted with a parade of major, disparate stories that made us stop and wonder, at regular intervals, What is going on in this world? When we thought yesterday’s news made us immune to any further shock, we learned again and again that we were mistaken. The planet today looks nothing like it did when fire¬ A FP/G E works exploded at midnight on December 31, 1999. Back then, TT Y most Americans felt they were living in a time of general prosperity and relative peace. Now we are at war in two different countries where thousands of U.S. troops have already been killed, and our economy is struggling to recover from a calam¬ ity not seen since the Great Depression, one that brought the world’s financial system to the very brink of collapse. Back then, in 1999, most of us never dreamed we would be attacked on our own soil. Now, in 2009, we realize we have enemies who would attack us again tomorrow if given the chance. We live life in a different way and with different expectations than we did 10 years ago.

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