The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2008
If you are a global citizen, you will enjoy reading about “The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2008.” The text below was taken from the Dec. 9 edition of Foreign Policy Magazine’s e-Alert (an electronic newsletter).
“As the world debated a new U.S. president’s foreign-policy vision, a key component of his platform was already being implemented. As the United States watched to see how an emerging China would react under the spotlight of the Olympic Games, a U.S. company was selling its authoritarian government the tools it would need to crush dissent. And as “green” became the year’s biggest buzzword, scientists discovered that environmentalists’ favorite power source might be even more harmful than the fossil fuels it was designed to replace.
FP’s “The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2008” features the page A14 stories that reveal as much about what happened in 2008 as those on A1. More importantly, they might be clues to what the leading headlines of 2009 will be.”
