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The Top 10 Everything of 2009
Topic Started: Dec 10 2009, 06:41 PM (310 Views)
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The Top 10 Everything of 2009
TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists

Each of the following entries in this list is linked to a websites for more detailed info. Just go to http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1945379,00.html to click the individual links.

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TOP 10 ALBUMS
American Saturday Night by Brad Paisley
Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
Crack the Skye by Mastodon
Revolution by Miranda Lambert
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Love vs. Money by The-Dream
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt 2 by Raekwon
Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
I and Love and You by the Avett Brothers
The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga

TOP 10 ANIMAL STORIES
The First Family Gets a Dog
The President Executes a Housefly
Pet-Pig Craze: The Teacup
Jessica Simpson's Dog Becomes Coyote's Bitch
Cat Gets Swine Flu
Sheep That Shrink Like Wool Sweaters
Chimp Mauls Woman
Spain Debates a Ban on Bullfighting
Bolivia Bans Circus Animals
Scientists Levitate a Mouse

TOP 10 APOLOGIES
A Rambling Apology from a Roving Governor
Err Force One
Apology Not Accepted
A Heckler in the House
He Didn't Let Her Finish
Serena Williams: My Fault
A Presidential Pardon Me
Who's the Boss?
California Says It's Sorry, 150 Years Late
Keep Doing What, Ernie?

TOP 10 ART EXHIBITIONS
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000-2007
Yinka Shonibare MBE
James Ensor
Butchers, Dragons, Gods & Skeletons
Kandinsky
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective

TOP 10 AWKWARD MOMENTS
Balloon Boy Spills the Beans
Kanye West Doesn't Let Taylor Swift Finish
The Beer Summit
Artie Lange Steals Joe Buck's Show
Mark Sanford's Mea Culpa
Ryan Seacrest's Regrettable High Five
Joaquin Phoenix Bombs on Letterman
The Colonel Is in the House
Joe Jackson Works the Red Carpet
Categorizing Caster Semenya

TOP 10 BEST BUSINESS DEALS
Berkshire Hathaway–Goldman Sachs
JPMorgan Chase and the Deals It Didn't Do
BB&T-Colonial
Berkshire Hathaway–Burlington Northern
Ford's $23.6 Billion Loan Grab
BlackRock–Barclays Global Investors
HP-EDS
Google-AdMob
Time Warner Spins Off Cable and AOL
Mead Johnson Nutrition

TOP 10 BREAKUPS
Silvio Berlusconi and Veronica Lario
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston
Lou Dobbs and CNN
Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson
Mel and Robyn Gibson
Jon and Kate Gosselin
Michael Phelps and Kellogg Co.
Oasis
Harry and Pepper, the San Francisco Zoo's Gay Penguins
Rihanna and Chris Brown

TOP 10 BUZZWORDS
Sexting
Public Option
Autotune
Wise Latina
Death Panel
Birther
Opposite Marriage
Summer of Death
Beer Summit
Green Shoots

TOP 10 CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Duck Rabbit by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
Guess Again by Mac Barnett; illustrated by Adam Rex
Dogs Don't Brush Their Teeth by Diane deGroat and Shelley Rotner
Crow Call by Lois Lowry; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems
Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
Pick a Pumpkin, Mrs. Millie! by Judy Cox, illustrated by Joe Mathieu
The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket; illustrated by Carson Ellis; music (accompanying CD) by Nathaniel Stookey
The Snow Day by Komako Sakai

TOP 10 CRIME STORIES
Finding Jaycee Dugard
The Cleveland Serial Rapist-Killer
The Craigslist Killer
The Headscarf Martyr
The Mystery of the Dead Census Worker
Murdering the Abortionist
The Tacoma Massacre
The Annie Le Murder
The Deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings
The Return of the Pishtacos

TOP 10 EDITORIAL CARTOONS
'Save the Women and Children ... and My Bonus Too'
The Watchful Eye of Twitter
'Now Stand Aside, Worthy — Aw, Just Get Outta the Way'
Downsizing in Detroit
'We Only Provided a Target'
Eight Was Enough
'Now This Is It'
Auditioning for the Supremes
Public Option No. 1
The Boy in the Fiscal Bubble

TOP 10 FACEBOOK STORIES
The Site that Ate the Internet
FarmVille
Twitter Fail
Getting the Last Laugh
Rewriting Your Rights
Facebook: Read the Book, See the Movie
Michael Jackson vs. Barack Obama
Breast Practices
Unfriend (Verb)
Gatecrash-Gate

TOP 10 FASHION FAUX PAS
Stars: They're Not Like Us
Drew's Do
Cate's Blanket
Lady Gaga Tries Normal
Scaling Up
Royal Mess
Never Mind the Bullocks
Gray Anatomy
Kilting Me Softly
Stone Cold

TOP 10 FASHION MOMENTS
Michelle Obama's Inaugural Gown
In a Downturn, High-End Denim
Gaga for Lady Gaga
Shortsgate
It's the '80s Again, Ladies
Mad Men's Off-Air Influence
Respect for the Hat
Madge's Party Attire
Sanity Returns to Shoes
Goth Ninja

TOP 10 FEUDS
Gates vs. Crowley
Gosselin vs. Gosselin
Cramer vs. Stewart
Palin vs. Johnston
Lewis vs. Thain
Obama vs. Fox News
Walmart vs. Amazon vs. Target
Venezuela vs. Colombia
Greenberg vs. AIG
Olbermann vs. O'Reilly

TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
Swimming by Nicola Keegan
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

TOP 10 FLEETING CELEBRITIES
Octomom
Susan Boyle
Miss California
Orly Taitz
Dr. Conrad Murray
Stephanie Birkitt
The White House Gate Crashers
John Yettaw
Tiger Woods' Alleged Mistress
Edgar (Patient Zero) Hernandez

TOP 10 GREEN IDEAS
U.N. Climate-Change Summit
Cap-and-Trade Debate in Washington
Stricter Auto Fuel-Efficiency Standards
General Motors Goes Bankrupt
EPA to Regulate CO2
Biofuels Aren't That Green
Factory Farming and Swine Flu
Obama's Green Cabinet
China's Green Stimulus
Nissan's All-Electric Leaf

TOP 10 HEROES
Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger
Neda Agha-Soltan
Mike Perham
Captain Richard Phillips
Kimberley Munley and Mark Todd
Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell
Tan Zuoren
Leonard Abess
Sultan Munadi
Muelmar Magallanes

TOP 10 IPHONE APPS
Tweetie 2
Yelp
Slacker
FlightTrack Pro
Mint
SlingPlayer Mobile
The Small Chair (McSweeney's)
RunKeeper
Photoshop.com Mobile
Locavore

TOP 10 LATE-NIGHT JOKES
Dave's Dirty Laundry
The Daily Show's CNBC Takedown
Conan Gets a Mayor's Attention
Why Sarah Palin Is No Letterman Fan
The White House Gets Less Funny
Jon Stewart: How Not to Do Interviews
Glenn Beck: Too Wacky Even for Colbert
Disgraced Politician Watch
Don't Ask, Don't Take Seriously
Overdosing on Tweets

TOP 10 MAGAZINE COVERS
New York, Feb. 22
The New Yorker, June 1
Texas Monthly, March
W, October
Tar, Spring-Summer
The New Yorker, Nov. 2
The Advocate, June 7
New York, Oct. 4
Interview, November
Vogue Australia, September

TOP 10 MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
New Mammography Guidelines
AIDS Vaccine
Funding Ban Lifted on Stem-Cell Research
H1N1 Vaccine
Stem-Cell-Created Mice
Prostate-Cancer Screening
New Research on Autism
New Drug for Osteoporosis
New Alzheimer's Genes
Brown Fat in Adults

TOP 10 MOVIE PERFORMANCES
1. Mo'nique as Mary Jones in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
2. Carey Mulligan as Jenny in An Education
3. Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones
4. Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie & Julia
5. Marion Cotillard as Luisa Contini in Nine
6. Colin Firth as George in A Single Man
7. Jeremy Renner as Staff Sergeant William James in The Hurt Locker
8. George Clooney as Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air
9. Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds
10. Michael Jackson as Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson's This Is It

TOP 10 MOVIES
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Up in the Air
The White Ribbon
A Single Man
Of Time and the City
District 9
Thirst

TOP 10 NEW SPECIES
Ratzilla
Teeny T. Rex
Glow-in-the-Dark 'Shrooms
Land of the Pink Iguana?
The World's Biggest Snake
The World's Weirdest Fish
New Spiders from New Guinea
Frog Bonanza in Madagascar
A Dinosaur Named Zac
Himalayan Hoard

TOP 10 NEWS STORIES
America's Economic Crisis: Now for the Non-Recovery
Afghanistan: Can the U.S. Avoid a Quagmire?
Iran's Tumultuous Election and Its Aftermath
The Divisive Debate Over Health Care Reform
Massacre at Fort Hood: The New Face of Terrorism?
The Death of Michael Jackson
Pakistan: On the Verge of a Breakdown
Mexico's Bloody Drug War
H1N1: That's Swine Flu to You
The End of Sri Lanka's Cataclysmic Civil War

TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOKS
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
D-Day by Antony Beevor
Lit by Mary Karr
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
The Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheehan
John Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

TOP 10 ODDBALL NEWS STORIES
Sweden Burns Bunnies for Fuel
'Cello Scrotum' as Mythical Ailment
Going in the Sky
Rage Against the Musical Torture
Fugitive Doll
High Hombres
Catering to Criminals
Science Is for the Birds
No More Naked Hiking
Not Exactly Twins

TOP 10 PARIAHS
Ponzi Schemer
Octomom
Balloon Boy's Dad
The Whipping Boy of Wall Street
Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend
Reality TV's Newly Single Dad
Lockerbie Convict Released
From Governor to Wannabe Reality Contestant
Hollywood's Most Famous Former Fugitive
Soccer's Ponytail Yanker

TOP 10 PICTURES OF THE YEAR
Historic Moment
Vigilant
Farewell
Tears
Miraculous
Armed and Dangerous
Iran Explodes
Gaza Digs Out
Parched
Summer Break

TOP 10 PLAYS AND MUSICALS
Ruined
A Steady Rain
The Norman Conquests
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Ragtime
Mary Stuart
Finian's Rainbow
Hamlet
Fela!
After Miss Julie

TOP 10 POLITICAL GAFFES
Joe Biden's Swine Flu Hysteria
Barack Obama's Bowling Blooper
Joe Wilson's Unwanted Outburst
Hillary Clinton Gets Lost in Translation
Michael Steele's Abortion Aberration
Larry Summers' White House Sleepover
Barack Obama Opens the Floodgates
Joe Biden's Stimulus Stumble
Sarah Palin's Coin Conspiracy
Michelle Obama's Buckingham Brush with Etiquette

TOP 10 QUOTES
Holding Back
Obama's Grim Reapers?
No Retreads
Red Peril Redux
The King's Epitaph
Let Them Eat Tiramisu
Bill Who?
Late Show Confessional
The Silent Scream
Schemer's Remorse?

TOP 10 RELIGION STORIES
Secularism or Bust
What Reformation?
Keeping the Faith-Based
Faith Healing Turns Fatal
Going to the Chapel
Dr. Dobson Has Left the Building
Obama's Notre Dame Touchdown
Americans Go Church Shopping
Banning the Baha'i
Religious Runaway

TOP 10 SCANDALS
The Love Guv
Expensive MPs
Et Tu, Letterman?
The Family Way
Ensign and the Assignations
Balloon Boy
Tiger or Lyin' Cheetah?
Missing Minneapolis
ACORN Falls
Love Hurts

TOP 10 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
Our Oldest Ancestor, "Ardi"
The Human Epigenome, Decoded
Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness
A Robot Performs Science
Breeding Tuna on Land
Water on the Moon
The Fundamental Lemma, Solved
Teleportation!
The Large Hadron Collider, Revived
A New Planet (or Brown Dwarf?) Discovered

TOP 10 SONGS
"My Life Would Suck Without You" by Kelly Clarkson
"Two Weeks" by Grizzly Bear
"No Line on the Horizon" by U2
"The Fear" by Lily Allen
"Crown on the Ground" by Sleigh Bells
(Tie) "Stillness Is the Move" by Dirty Projectors and also Solange
"White Liar" by Miranda Lambert
"D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" by Jay-Z
"Sabali" by Amadou and Mariam
"Mad World" by Adam Lambert

TOP 10 SPORTS MOMENTS
Another Wimbledon Winner
Golf for the Ages
Lightning Bolts, Take Two
Perfect Catch Saves a Perfect Game
Phenomenal Filly
Tiptoe to a Title-Winning Touchdown
Rio's Olympic Win Is Chicago's Loss
Reynolds to the Rescue
Hockey's Dream Series
Barcelona's Big Triple

TOP 10 T-SHIRT-WORTHY SLOGANS
Kanye West
Tiger Woods
Silvio Berlusconi
Alex Rodriguez
General Stanley McChyrstal
Kate Moss
Tabby Cat
President Obama
Lloyd Blankfein
Ernie Anastos

TOP 10 TV ADS
Evian Roller Babies
Hulu
Coca-Cola
Careerbuilder.com
Prius
American Express
Travelers Insurance
Budweiser Bud Light
Shelter.org.uk
General Motors Re:invent

TOP 10 TV EPISODES
The Office, "Stress Relief"
Glee, "Pilot"
Big Love, "Come, Ye Saints"
Dollhouse, "Briar Rose"
Nurse Jackie, "Tiny Bubbles"
30 Rock, "Apollo, Apollo"
Mad Men, "My Old Kentucky Home"
Party Down, "Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen"
Breaking Bad, "Phoenix"
Curb Your Enthusiasm, "The Table Read"

TOP 10 TV SERIES
Mad Men
Modern Family
Breaking Bad
Big Love
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
Friday Night Lights
Glee
Sons of Anarchy
(Tie) The Office / Parks and Recreation

TOP 10 TWEETS
Ashton Kutcher
Neil Patrick Harris
Iran
Oprah
Shaquille O'Neal
Larry Johnson
Tracy Morgan
Pete Hoekstra
Cory Booker
Miley Cyrus

TOP 10 UNDERREPORTED STORIES
Continuing Segregation Is Hurting U.S. Competitiveness
Nigerian Blood for Oil
The Maoist Insurgency in India
America: Barring Foreign Brains?
Ethnic Unrest in Iran
The Deadlier Flu Virus: When Pigs Fly
Obama Allows Faith-Based 'Discrimination'
Who Owns the Mekong?
Oops! U.S. Nuclear Secrets Are Posted Online
Experimenting with Children

TOP 10 UNTRUTHS
Death Panels
Balloon Boy
Hiking the Appalachian Trail
The Birther Movement
Recovery.gov Is a Little Buggy
Shepard Fairey Loses Hope
Sizing Up the Tea Party
Fake Flu-Fighting Products
Staying Alive
Latvia Is Bored

TOP 10 VIDEO GAMES
Modern Warfare 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
DJ Hero
Borderlands
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Geo-Defense Swarm
Scribblenauts
Halo 3: ODST
Assassin's Creed 2
Uncharted 2

TOP 10 VIRAL VIDEOS
The Longest Way 1.0 — One Year Walk–Beard Grow Time Lapse
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version
Deadline: Post-It Stop-Motion
Slate V: The All-Star Celebrity Rant
Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson's Wedding
Susan Boyle
David After Dentist
All the Single Babies
Flutter
United Breaks Guitars

TOP 10 WORST BIZ DEALS
Stuyvesant Town
Huntsman Corp.
Chrysler's Bailout
Tribune's Tribulations
Clear Channel Lowers the Volume
MySpace Loses Face
Citi Sells Phibro
Dubai's Bankers
CityCenter
Iceland and Ireland Lenders
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