The Top 10 Everything of 2009
TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists
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Arts & Entertainment
- Top 10 Oprah Moments
- Top 10 Worst National-Anthem Renditions
- Top 10 Short-Lived Celebrity Marriages
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Business
Crime
Energy & Environment
Education
- Top 10 Bad Teachers
- The 20 Best- and Worst-Paid College Majors
- School of Thought: 11 Education Activists for 2011
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Health & Medicine
- Top 10 Iconic Junk Foods
- What You Need to Know About Bullying
- Back to School: Best Lunchboxes for Kids (and Their Parents!)
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Internet
Lifestyle
Personal Finance
Politics
- Top 10 Secret Service Code Names
- Top 10 Political Sex Scandals
- Top 10 Presidential-Vacation Destinations
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Religion
- Top 10 Failed Predictions
- Top 10 Pat Robertson Gaffes
- Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Ramadan
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Science
- Top 10 Not-So-Extinct Animals
- The Cleanest Cities in the U.S.
- The 10 Most Air-Polluted Cities in the U.S.
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Sports
- Top 10 NYC-vs.-Boston Showdowns
- Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About the New England Patriots
- Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About the New York Giants
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Tech
Travel
United States
- Top 10 American Protest Movements
- America's Next War
- Chicago Ideas Week 2011: Intelligence Squared
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War & Terrorism
- Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience
- Return to Baghdad
- Seven Years in Iraq: An Iraq War Timeline
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