However this year's publications focused not only on the year 2009, but on the whole decade! Things have not been going back so far since the century turned from the 1900's to the 2000's. Why is the media so set on reviewing the beginning of the 21st century? What was so good, or so bad, that we want to read about it again? Actually, a lot. For starters natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Indonesian Tsunami are memorable because of the thousands of people who died. Then there were the manmade disasters like the fall of the Twin Towers following their attack by terrorists. Have things been so boring in 2009 that we have to dredge up the more sensational tragedies of the decades before?