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Inventing Our Age

By Richard Stengel, Managing Editor Monday, Nov. 23, 2009
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The 2009 blue ribbon for inventiveness goes to the Ares I rocket.

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But 1989 was a watershed year for countless other reasons: the rise of the Web, protests in Tiananmen Square, the Exxon Valdez disaster and the birth of The Simpsons, to name a few. To commemorate the historic nature of that year, we're publishing TIME 1989: The Year That Defined Today's World. The foundation of the book was a special issue of TIME International, edited by Michael Elliott. The book is filled with superb essays and iconic pictures that trace how that pivotal year is still shaping our world today.

Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR

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