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| The Top 10 Everything of 2009 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 10 2009, 06:41 PM (310 Views) | |
| Casper de Leon | Dec 10 2009, 06:41 PM Post #1 |
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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. Full List 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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