Word: 49th
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Congratulations are also in order for TIME's photo department, which took more than its share of top magazine honors in the 49th annual Pictures of the Year Competition, sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In an extraordinary display of strength, TIME photographers snapped up 18 awards -- including Magazine Photographer of the Year to Christopher Morris for his coverage of civil war in Yugoslavia and a first-place prize in the Magazine Picture Story category to Anthony Suau for his photo essay on the persecution of the Kurds...
Even after the hysterical handwringing and gnashing of teeth in the American media spread north of the 49th parallel, PC still meant the same thing to Canadians that it always did: the Progressive Conservative party, also known as the Tories, the party currently running the government...
...almost every statistical index, West Virginia's economy is among the the worst in the nation. With a per capita income of $11,735 the state ranks 49th in the U.S., well behind the national average of $16,489. Almost 23 percent of West Virginians live in poverty--the third highest poverty rate...