What do you consider the most important story of this decade?
Jared May, Boston
I would say 9/11. We're fighting two wars in its name. It changed how we are viewed in the world and changed how my children's generation will grow up as Americans. It changed how I entered this building today.
The most surprising news story in my lifetime is the Soviet Union's collapse. What is yours?
Ed Winters, Suffolk, N.Y.
I was born in 1959 in Ridgewood, N.J., so if you think...