December 31, 2000 | Vol. 156 No. 27

The Year in The Nation

The Year in the World

In countries from Mexico to Yugoslavia, the cry was let freedom ring! In the Middle East, gunfire rang out. Elsewhere, in Africa, tragedy came more quietly

The Year In Science And Technology (Science And Technology)

We learned amazing things about the outer reaches of space and the inner workings of the human body

The Year In Nature (Nature)

The planet strikes back! After being polluted, denuded and otherwise ravaged, Earth got fearsome with floods, fires and the threat of worse to come

The Year's Trends (Trends)

Even without a Macarena or a double latte, 2000's fads were fun and frothy

The Year in Sport

From the Sydney Olympics to the Subway Series, performances transcended the playing field

Time To Go Home, Buddy (Just One More)

Time & Life (To Our Readers)

Two famous siblings in Henry Luce's family of magazines go into business together

2000 That Was The Year That Wasn't (Introduction)

From Y2K through the unpresidential election, the much ballyhooed year 2000 featured a series of cacophonous drum rolls followed by...silence

The Year's Best Lines (Voices)

Did they really say that? Yes, they really said that

The Year's News In Pictures (News Quiz)

These photographs don't prove that a picture's worth a thousand words--they're not worth half that--but they do prove another adage: pictures can be deceiving