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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3. Conan Gets a Mayor's Attention

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"The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health-care program consists of a bus ticket out of Newark."

Conan O'Brien, in one of a series of cracks about Newark that prompted an angry response from Mayor Cory Booker

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