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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2. Vigilant

A U.S. Army soldier in Afghanistan

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A U.S. Army soldier from the 10th Mountain Division surveys a road in the Tangi Valley, Afghanistan, on Sept. 4.

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