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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...life is boring. I don't go to clubs, I have never done an extreme sport and when people ask me what's new, I usually tell them what I ate for lunch. I never really worried about this before - that is, until I read a collection of my own Facebook updates. Facebook's "My Year in Status" application has collected every status update I posted this year and published them as one easily digestible essay about sleeping, eating and going to work. I really need to get out more. (See TIME's top 10 Facebook stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Year in Status on Facebook | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

Christopher Caldwell's Viewpoint on Judge Sonia Sotomayor and affirmative action reflected a lack of insight. I graduated recently as the only Latina in my medical-school class, and understand, in a way Caldwell will never be able to, that the stories of President Obama, Sotomayor and myself are possible only because of the propping up of affirmative-action laws by empathetic judges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

This gap in the English language shouldn't come as a surprise; the debate over what to name the first decade of this century has been going on since the middle decades of the last one. The 1900s never got a name beyond vague constructions like the turn of the century. One popular term--the aughts--has proved too archaic (and tricky to spell) to be broadly revived. Wordsmiths tried new coinages starting early: in 1963 a New Yorker writer suggested "Twenty oh-oh" for the far-off year 2000, a "nervous name for what is sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's So Hard to Name the '00s | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...Twice, police charges were forced back by the sheer weight of numbers and the readiness like never before of protesters to confront security forces and throw rocks. "This is a civil movement," said a youth juggling a jagged piece of rock in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Holy Day, Protest and Carnage in Tehran | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...That crowd never made it. Ripples of fear prompted a stampede after a concerted police charge. Tear gas and batons held the day once more. But word later came through that many had in fact reached Revolution Square and some had even gone to Tehran's iconic Freedom Monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Holy Day, Protest and Carnage in Tehran | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

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