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  1. -11-03-04 Highest Voter Turnout in Three Decades (ABC News)
      "Driven by an intense race for the presidency, a greater percentage of Americans voted Tuesday than at any time in more than three decades."

      "Gans put the total turnout at nearly 120 million people. That represents just under 60 percent of eligible voters the highest percentage turnout since 1968, Gans said." 11-04

  2. CBO: Over $855 Billion Budget Deficit Projected for Decade (CNN News)
      "As Congress started to digest a new Bush administration request of $80 billion to bankroll wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its top budget analyst Tuesday projected $855 billion in deficits for the next decade even without the costs of war and President Bush’s Social Security plan." 1-05

  3. -01-08-06 Harris: Biggest Corruption Crisis for Decades Looms (Guardian Unlimited)
      "The fall of Jack Abramoff threatens to provoke America's biggest corruption crisis for decades. It also reveals how money greases the political wheels."

      "There are believed to be more than 30,000 lobbyists in Washington, outnumbering elected federal politicians by almost 60 to one. The money they deal in tops $2bn a year. Such numbers shock many on both sides of the party divide. The US constitution is often praised for its checks and balances between the president, Congress and the Supreme Court. But where money equals power, no one predicted the unofficial fourth branch of US government: K Street."

      "Drug-makers are the biggest lobbyers, spending $681m in the six years up to 2004 to woo officials. They employ 3,000 lobbyists. The investment paid off in 2003 with the passing of a bill to provide taxpayer-funded drug prescriptions for the elderly. Many critics lambasted it as a giveaway to Big Pharma. One study predicted drug firms would reap $139bn in extra profits from the legislation." 01-06

  4. -07-17-06 China's Economy Grows Fastest in a Decade (Bloomberg.com)
      "China's economy grew at the fastest pace in more than a decade in the first half as higher borrowing costs and government lending curbs failed to slow investment in factories and real estate." 07-06

  5. -12-09-08 Worst Riots in Decades in Greece (CBS News)
      "Riot police fought running battles with mourners Tuesday after the funeral of a teenager whose shooting by officers triggered Greece's worst rioting in decades." 12-08

  6. -001 Tiger Woods Voted AP Athlete of the Decade (CBS News)
      "He won 64 times around the world, including 12 majors, and hoisted a trophy on every continent golf is played. He lost only one time with the lead going into the final round. His 56 PGA Tour victories in one incomparable decade were more than anyone except four of golf's greatest players won in their careers."

      "Woods was selected Wednesday as the Athlete of the Decade by members of The Associated Press in a vote that was more about 10 years of performance than nearly three weeks of salacious headlines."

      "Just like so many of his victories, it wasn't much of a contest." 12-09

  7. Straws May Help Reduce Tooth Decay (CBS News)
      "Using a straw when you drink soda may help avoid cavities and tooth decay, but the straw needs to be in the right place, say Temple University professors." 6-05

  8. H1N1 Flu's Genes Undetected for a Decade (CBS News)
      "Genes included in the new H1N1 (swine) flu have been circulating undetected in pigs for at least a decade, according to researchers who have sequenced the genomes of more than 50 samples of the virus."

      "The findings suggest that in the future pig populations will need to be closely monitored for emerging influenza viruses, according to the report, released Friday by the journal Science." 05-09

  9. Rhinoceroses (African Wildlife Foundation)
      Provides facts and a picture. "The rhinoceros is a large, primitive-looking mammal that in fact dates from the Miocene era millions of years ago. In recent decades rhinos have been relentlessly hunted to the point of near extinction."

  10. Voucher Systems (Awesome Library)
      Provides sources of arguments for and against vouchers regarding the Supreme Court case of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. Justice O'Connor is believed to hold the deciding vote. This case may be the most important finding of the Supreme Court regarding education in decades. 2-02

  11. Second Oldest Hominids - Six Million Years Old (Time - Robinson)
      Discusses the oldest hominid fossil, Orrorin tugenensis. "Indeed, suggests Haile-Selassie, while Orrorin may be one of the earliest chimps or an ape that became extinct, it could also turn out to be the last common ancestor of humans and chimps—a creature paleontologists have been dreaming of finding for decades." 5-02

  12. 05-15-02 China Starts World's Largest Reforestation Effort (Guardian Unlimited)
      "After decades of logging that has left large swathes of the country looking like a desert wasteland, China embarked Tuesday on a $12 billion, 10-year program to plant 170,000 square miles of trees - an area roughly the size of California."

      "It is the largest reforestation project ever, forestry officials said, suggesting only an unprecedented effort can stop the expanding deserts, chronic droughts and deadly flooding blamed on wholesale logging."

  13. Corporate Charters - Limitations of the Past (Grossman and Adams)
      "Many colonial citizens argued that under the Constitution, no business could be granted special privileges. Others worded that once incorporators amassed wealth, they would use their corporate shields to control jobs and production, buy off the press and dominate elections and the courts." However, in 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court granted corporations the same rights and protections as individual persons.

      "Within just a few decades, appointed judges had redefined the 'common good' to mean the corporate use of humans and the Earth for maximum production and profit -- no matter what was manufactured, who was hurt or what was destroyed. Corporations had obtained control over resources, production, commerce, jobs, politicians, judges and the law. Workers, citizens, cities, towns, states and nature were left with fewer and fewer rights that corporations were forced to respect."

      "By rewriting the [state] laws governing corporations, we citizens can reassert the convictions of the people who struggled to resist corporate rule in the past." 7-02

  14. Small Is Profitable (BusinessWeek.com)
      Describes the successful trend to "focus on inexpensive, downsized, simple-to-use products" for the developing world. "All these efforts are aimed at what could well be the biggest source of economic growth in the coming decades: the two-thirds of the global population now making $1,500 or less annually." 8-02

  15. Eban, Abba (BBC)
      "Veteran Israeli politician and diplomat Abba Eban has died in hospital near Tel Aviv at the age of 87."

      "He dominated the first decade of Israeli diplomacy following the state's establishment in 1948, serving as its representative to the United Nations and ambassador to Washington."

      "He went on to become one of Israel's most respected foreign ministers, serving for eight of the most turbulent years of its history, between 1966 and 1974." 11-02

  16. Essay - Alternative to War in Iraq (OpenDemocracy.net - Jabar)
      "In all the decades of struggle and international lobbying, one approach has never been tried: a meaningful political process to disengage the various components of the regime from each other." 12-02

  17. California for First Time Forced to Limit Water Supply (Yahoo)
      "This is a pivotal moment in the contentious history of water in the arid West, which more often than not has pitted California's unquenchable thirst against that of its smaller but equally parched neighbors."

      "For the first time since it was given the authority four decades ago, the United States Department of the Interior has said no to California's dipping into the Colorado River for more than its allotted share." 1-03

  18. Desalination to Combat Water Shortages (Capital Times)
      "California's epic quest for water, made more pressing by a Western drought and a cutback in the Colorado River supply, is turning toward what many see as an obvious source: the Pacific Ocean."

      "For the most part, desalination has long been prohibitively expensive as a source of drinking water in California. But rising demand, dwindling supply, and new technology that makes it cheaper to take the salt out of sea water are changing the economics of desalination."

      "The basic process of desalination is not new. Salt water is pumped through filters under high pressure, squeezing out minerals. Israel and Kuwait have relied on desalination for decades, as have military vessels and cruise ships." 03-06

  19. -02-23-03 Vaccine for AIDS Works (USA Today News - Sternberg)
      "Nearly two decades after the discovery of the AIDS virus, researchers Monday report for the first time that an AIDS vaccine can prevent infection but with sharply different success rates depending on race."

      "The first full-scale human trial of the vaccine, AIDSVAX, indicates that although the vaccine failed to protect whites and Hispanics, it appears to be effective in Asians and blacks. Blacks account for half of all new infections in the USA, federal statistics show."

      "Although the vaccine failed to provide protection overall, it was 78.3% effective in blacks and 68% effective in Asians." 2-03

  20. Fueling War - Oil and Iraq (CBS News)
      "It was not solely about oil, said the first President Bush, when America led the fight to drive Iraq from Kuwait more than a decade ago."

      "And today, as Iraqis wonder when Baghdad may be bombed again, the current Bush administration says it’s not about oil at all – this time." “It’s about oil a lot more than people in the government are saying. I think if you had tulips in Iraq, we wouldn’t have several hundred thousand troops getting ready to invade,” says veteran journalist Sandy Tolan."

      "Tolan teaches about the politics of oil at the University of California at Berkeley. " 2-03

  21. Sisulu, Walter (IAfrica.com)
      "Walter Sisulu, who died Monday aged 90, was an unassuming but giant pillar of South Africa's bitter anti-apartheid war and respected as much as his long-time friend Nelson Mandela."

      "From the time he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940 until apartheid fell in 1994, Sisulu played a key leadership role in the struggle against the white supremacist regime that held the country in its grip for decades." 5-03

  22. Quotas - Bush and Military Disagree on Affirmative Action (CNN)
      "The Supreme Court is expected to rule any day now in the biggest affirmative action case in a decade. And as CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports, President Bush and the U.S. military are weighing in on opposite sides of the issue."

  23. 07-20-03 Bush Attacks Treaty to Save Earth's Ozone (Independent - Lean)
      "President George Bush is targeting the international treaty to save the ozone layer which protects all life on earth from deadly radiation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal."

      "New US demands - tabled at a little-noticed meeting in Montreal earlier this month - threaten to unravel one of the greatest environmental success stories of the past few decades, causing millions of deaths from cancer." 7-03

  24. Guthrie, Woody (RockHall.com)
      "The words and music of Hank Williams echo across the decades with a timelessness that transcends genre. He brought country music into the modern era, and his influence spilled over into the folk and rock arenas as well." 9-03

  25. Beatles, The (RockHall.com)
      "The impact of the Beatles upon popular music cannot be overstated; they revolutionized the music industry and touched the lives of all who heard them in deep and fundamental ways. Landing on these shores on February 7, 1964, they literally stood the world of pop culture on its head, setting the musical agenda for the remainder of the decade." 9-03

  26. Platters, The (RockHall.com)
      "The Platters were one of the top vocal groups of the Fifties, delivering smooth, stylized renditions of pop standards. Like the Ink Spots a decade earlier, they were the most popular black group of their time, achieving success in a crooning, middle-of-the-road style that put a soulful coat of uptown polish on pop-oriented, harmony-rich material." 9-03

  27. Grateful Dead, The (RockHall.com)
      "The Grateful Dead wrought a psychedelic revolution upon the cultural landscape of the Sixties. They also kept the spirit of the Sixties alive in the decades that followed, building a massive, supportive network of fans known as 'Deadheads.' "

      "From jazz, the Grateful Dead adapted an improvisational approach. Heavily steeped in Americana, the group derived from blues and bluegrass. From the culture of psychedelia, as pioneered by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, the Dead grew attuned to the broad palette of possibilities that could be tapped when imagination was given free reign." 9-03

  28. Queen (RockHall.com)
      "Queen represented rock’s bombastic pinnacle. Melding glam-rock with hard-rock, the group’s ornate, multi-tracked recordings and in-your-face songs resulted to worldwide sales of more than 130 million records. Queen took flight in the Seventies, embodying the thrills and excesses of that decade." 9-03

  29. Rolling Stones, The (RockHall.com)
      "Little did the Rolling Stones know how apt their name - inspired by the title of a Muddy Waters song, 'Rollin' Stone' - would turn out to be. Formed in 1962, they are the longest-lived continuously active group in rock and roll history. They are also, according to a slogan that is supported by critical and popular consensus, 'the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band.' Throughout four decades of shifting tastes in the arena of popular music, the Stones have kept rolling, adapting to the latest sounds and styles without straying too far from their origins as a blues-loving, guitar-based rock and roll band." 9-03

  30. Who, The (RockHall.com)
      "From Mod-era 'maximum R and B' to rock operas and quintessential Seventies hard rock, the Who reigned across the decades as one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. At their best, they distilled the pent-up energy and chaos of rock and roll into its purest form while investing their music with literary wiles and visionary insight. In their prime they were a unit whose individual personalities fused into a larger-than-life whole. Pete Townshend provided the slashing guitar work and much of the material. Vocalist Roger Daltrey injected the songs with expressive muscularity and passion. Bassist John Entwistle anchored the band with his stoic demeanor and expert musicianship. Keith Moon, one of the greatest of all rock and roll drummers, embodied their explosive energy and anarchic wit." 9-03

  31. Gordy, Berry (RockHall.com)
      "Berry Gordy founded and presided over the musical empire known as Motown. As a young black man working in often inhospitable times, Gordy endeavored to reach across the racial divide with music that could touch all people, regardless of the color of their skin. Under his tutelage, Motown became a model of black capitalism, pride and self-expression and a repository for some of the greatest talent ever assembled at one company."

      "In its Sixties heyday, Motown's parade of hits revolutionized American popular music. After Motown, black poplar music would never again be dismissed as a minority taste. For more than a decade, Berry Gordy and his talented cohorts translated a black idiom into the Sound of Young America. Aesthetically no less than commercially, Motown's achievements will likely remain unrivaled and untoppable." 9-03

  32. 09-28-03 How Much Is $87 Billion for Iraq? (PBS NOW - Brancacchio)
      The Bush administration has asked Congress for an additional $87 billion dollars for Iraq and Afghanistan this year. "Even by federal government standards the supplemental budget request is a lot of money, eighty-seven billion dollars. The word supplemental means just that…money on top of the 79 billion dollars already earmarked for Iraq and Afghanistan. Typically, federal budget figures are priced over ten years. Not this one. The eight-seven billion extra is for this year and odds are the administration will have to ask for more in 2004."

      "The sheer size of the supplemental request for Iraq is prompting many of us to take a moment to reflect on what each of us might have done with a chunk of change like that. You know, if history had been different. Had the sanctions worked, had the inspectors stayed, had the U.S. had built a coalition that would have shared the costs of occupation as well the invasion."

      "It could be used to fix up America's infrastructure. Right now the city of Atlanta is fighting to get federal money for a big overhaul of its sewers. The President's request would spend nearly 10 times more for sewers and drinking water projects in Iraq than in the U.S. That's calculated per capita of population, but you get the point."

      "...But unlike a lottery, which is supposed to have the money on hand to pay its winners, there is no 87 billion dollars lying around in the U.S. treasury ripe for the spending."

      "So we'll borrow and those who lend will charge us interest which will rack up impressively over the decades it will take to pay it back. Think of it like a house. An $87 billion house with a mortgage. Payments just half-a-billion dollars a month, every month for the next 30 years." 9-03

  33. 11-23-03 House Votes to Remake Medicare (Bloomberg.com)
      "The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $395 billion Medicare bill to help the elderly afford prescription drugs, after Republican leaders spent three hours mustering the votes needed to overhaul the federal health plan. "

      "The measure would spend billions of dollars over the next decade to pick up much of the cost of prescription medicines that seniors buy at pharmacies, expanding sales for drugmakers including Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. The program now pays for medicines administered by doctors such as chemotherapy. The bill would also raise hospital payments and cut fees for doctors and other services."

      "For the first time, the legislation would also require those older Americans with annual incomes over $80,000 to pay higher premiums under Medicare Part B, which covers services outside the hospital."

      "Additionally, it would establish new tax-preferred health accounts, open to individuals with high-deductible insurance policies." 11-03

  34. 12-03-03 Republican Congress Achieves Goals (CNN News)
      "With Republicans in control, Congress in 2003 gave President Bush the money he asked for Iraq, voted the biggest changes in Medicare in four decades and narrowed abortion rights for the first time in 30 years." 12-03

  35. Secret Intelligence Courts Can Now Be Used (CBS News)
      "The FBI has implemented new ground rules that 'fundamentally alter the way investigators handle counterterrorism cases, allowing criminal and intelligence agents to work side by side and giving both broad access to the tools of intelligence gathering for the first time in decades,' The Washington Post says in its Saturday editions."

      "The result is that the FBI, unhindered by the restrictions of the past, 'will conduct many more searches and wiretaps that are subject to oversight by a secret intelligence court rather than regular criminal courts,' officials told the Post." 12-03

  36. Facts and Myths About Mars (CNN News)
      "We know a great deal about the red planet from centuries of work by astronomers and from decades of data beamed back from unmanned spacecraft like the twin Viking landers, which in 1976 became the first spacecraft to land successfully on the planet." 12-03

  37. Gorillas Endangered Species Program (WWFUS.org)
      Provides news and programs to support endangered gorillas. "The largest of the great apes, gorillas are among our most endangered species. Having endured decades of civil war in the region, gorillas are confronted by the devastating consequences of increased habitat loss, poaching for the bushmeat trade and the spread of dangerous diseases like Ebola." 12-03

  38. 12-31-03 Saturn: Bright on New Years Eve (Space.com - Britt)
      "Saturn will be closer to Earth on New Years Eve than at any time in the past three decades." 12-03

  39. 01-16-04 Iraqi Women Decry Move to Cut Rights (MSNBC News)
      "For the past four decades, Iraqi women have enjoyed some of the most modern legal protections in the Muslim world, under a civil code that prohibits marriage below the age of 18, arbitrary divorce and male favoritism in child custody and property inheritance disputes."

      "Saddam Hussein's dictatorship did not touch those rights. But the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council has voted to wipe them out, ordering in late December that family laws shall be "canceled" and such issues placed under the jurisdiction of strict Islamic legal doctrine known as sharia."

      "This week, outraged Iraqi women -- from judges to cabinet ministers -- denounced the decision in street protests and at conferences, saying it would set back their legal status by centuries and could unleash emotional clashes among various Islamic strains that have differing rules for marriage, divorce and other family issues." 1-04

  40. 02-25-04 Democrats Fight to Ban Assault Weapons (CNN News)
      "Gun rights groups plan to urge majority Republicans to defeat the proposed amendments. The GOP-controlled House already has said it does not plan to approve the extension of the assault weapons ban."

      President Bush does not support the ban on assault weapons. "The White House has urged the Senate to pass the legislation without amendments."

      "Getting the 1994 assault weapons prohibition renewed has been a Democratic priority this year. They picked up support Tuesday from GOP Sens. John Warner of Virginia, Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island."

      " 'Although I voted against the ban a decade ago, over the past 10 years it has reduced crime dramatically and has made our streets safer,' Warner said. 'The legislation also has protected the rights of gun owners better than many of us predicted.' " 2-04

  41. 02-27-04 Budget Deficit to Balloon (USA Today)
      "President Bush's budget would produce deficits totaling $2.75 trillion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office projected Friday in the first authoritative look at the plan's longer-range implications."

      "One major item omitted by Bush's budget but included in Friday's projections was the cost of his proposal to make tax cuts permanent that otherwise would expire in 2010. Bush's tax plans would add more than $1.3 trillion to deficits over the decade, although his plans to curb domestic spending would save $700 billion over that same period, the budget office said."

      "Wary of the impact on deficits, Republican congressional leaders already have said they will not move this year on Bush's proposal to extend the tax cuts, which is the pillar of his plan for strengthening the economy." 2-04

  42. 03-02-04 Assault Weapons Ban Extended (CBS News)
      "The Senate voted Tuesday to extend for another decade a ban on military-style assault weapons and to require background checks on buyers at private gun shows, giving Democrats a rare victory on gun legislation that would also deny crime victims the ability to sue gunmakers and dealers."

      "Democrats argued that law enforcement officers and regular citizens all would be safer if the assault weapons covered under the bill continued to be banned. 'These are weapons of war. They are designed to kill a lot of people quickly,' said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who authored the 1994 gun ban while in the House."

      "Warner, who voted against the gun ban in 1994, said the testimony from law enforcement officials in his state convinced him to vote Tuesday for renewing it." 3-04

  43. 03-29-04 Spirals in Mars Snow Caps Unraveled (CNN News)
      "Odd spiraling gorges etched deep into the polar ice caps of Mars have stumped scientists for decades. The huge arcing troughs radiate outward like arms of a pinwheel, creating an overall shape that visually and mathematically resembles hurricanes, spiral galaxies and even some seashells."

      "Now there is an apparent solution to the mystery, put forth by Jon Pelletier of the University of Arizona in Tucson."

      "The tilted planet causes ice on one side of a crack to heat and vaporize, deepening and widening the crack. Then the water vapor hits the shady, colder side of the growing canyon and refreezes." 3-04

  44. Stepanek, Mattie - Poems and Thoughts (MyHero.com)
      "Young Poet and Peacemaker Hero Mattie Stepanek passed away on the morning of June 22, 2004 [at the age of 13 years old]. Mattie’s poems of peace and hope have touched millions of lives, his heartsongs will continue to reach people of all ages around the world for decades to come."

      A sample of Mattie's work is "Facing the Future":
      Every journey begins With but a small step.
      And every day is a chance
      For a new, small step
      In the right direction.
      Just follow your Heartsong. 6-04

  45. 06-30-04 Interest Rates Go Up (USA Today)
      "The Federal Reserve raised its target for a key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday, starting what is expected to be a cycle of rising interest rates that pulls the plug on the cheapest credit in decades." 6-04

  46. Nuclear Science (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Nuclear Science Division)
      "The ABC's of Nuclear Science is a brief introduction to Nuclear Science. We look at Antimatter, Beta rays, Cosmic connection and much more. Visit here and learn about radioactivity - alpha, beta and gamma decay. Find out the difference between fission and fusion. Learn about the structure of the atomic nucleus. Learn how elements on the earth were produced." 7-04

  47. Domesticated Bees Shortage (NationalGeographic.com)
      "Decades of disease and overuse of pesticides have put the squeeze on populations of the domesticated honeybee. As a result, farmers are increasingly left with fields of flowering crops that fail to bear fruit."

      "Since some 15 to 30 percent of the food we humans eat directly or indirectly depend on the pollination services of bees, scientists say the problem threatens to take some excitement—and potentially abundance—from our diets." 10-04

  48. Report: Population in 2300 Expected To Be 9 Billion (CBS News)
      "Three hundred years from now, the world's population will have stabilized at about 9 billion and we will look forward to living until age 95. In Japan, that bastion of longevity, people will be hanging around until they're 106."

      "Still, the global population will swell in the decades to come, when there will be 57 million more people every year from now to 2050, fueled by growth in less developed regions, the report projects." 11-04

  49. 11-14-04 CIA in Free Fall (CBS News)
      "Insiders say the arrival of newly installed CIA Director Porter Goss has plunged the agency into turmoil unlike anything they've seen in nearly three decades, reports CBS News Correspondent Joie Chen." 11-04

  50. Fighting Big Tobacco (CBS News)
      "Jeffrey Wigand was the maverick insider who - at what he considered was great personal risk to himself and his family - blew the whistle on big tobacco."

      "Back in 1995, he exposed the lies we'd all been told for decades about cigarettes: about their capacity to addict us, about their capacity to kill us."

      "Since then, he's literally changed the air we breathe. But, in an interview with Correspondent Mike Wallace 10 years ago, Wigand became the first major tobacco insider to reveal that the cigarette companies were consciously trying to get us hooked on nicotine." 1-05

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