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The best and the worst of 2010

28.12.2010
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You can't reduce a year on Earth to a mere list. The most talked-about stories, however, can be condensed into the tiniest of spaces: a list of top Twitter trends. For 2010, these included crises like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the floods in Pakistan and the earthquake in Haiti. These also included such highlights as the rescue of the Chilean miners, the FIFA World Cup, the Apple iPad, and Prince William's engagement. The hottest media story of the year, WikiLeaks Cablegate, sharply refocused the limits of information-flow control and media-driven democracy in the age of the internet.

But some big stories are missing among the trending topics. What happened to the European fiscal crisis? Obama's divisive health-care overhaul? The heartening release of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, or the disheartening news from Belarus? Why is there no mention of the volcano in Iceland that grounded air travel across Europe? Are these too local to trend globally?

Much of what happens over the course of a year and registers online is simply too transient to make the grade and go down in history. But on the next page, review those very biggest of events that will remain with us. Oh, and do a bit of brushing up, too, on your comparatives and superlatives.

Anne Hodgson

schlichte
zusammengefasst
Ölverschmutzung, -katastrophe
Überschwemmungen
Erdbeben
Verlobung
richtete erneut besonderes Augenmerk auf
Finanzkrise
entzweiend
Reform
ermutigend
entmutigend
am Boden festhalten
vergänglich
den Anforderungen gerecht werden
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Submitted by Anne Hodgson on Tue, 04/01/2011 - 09:01.
Don't miss RAP NEWS 6 - Wikileaks' Cablegate: the truth is out there. Includes SUBTITLES in German. RN6 has been translated into 12 languages so far. Thank you to Vitesse Hoepfner.
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Submitted by wppichler@... on Sun, 20/03/2011 - 19:07.

Why does the test result not work.

I did e.g. " The best and the worst of 2010" and there was 0 points in my results,
in spite of 11 correct answers.
I often happens to me.

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Submitted by Mike Pilewski on Sun, 20/03/2011 - 21:45.
Hi W.P.,

Are you sure that your browser is able to accept cookies from spotlight-online.de? This is the source of many problems.
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