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  • A Fond Farewell
    TIME's Person of the Year issue waves a last goodbye to those we lost in 2006
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2006: Power to the People

  • This was the year of the web generation, a year that saw the rise of a new digital democracy. Meet 15 of the web generation's biggest movers and shakers
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  • The Year That Religion Learned Humility
    The new millennium saw the rise of fundamentalist faith as a cultural force. In 2006, says Andrew Sullivan, the religious monoliths began to break down

  • Syria in Bush's Cross Hairs
    Exclusive: A classified document suggests the Administration is considering a plan to fund political opposition to the Damascus government. Some critics say it would be an unwarranted covert action

  • A Man Of Mettle
    Steel baron Lakshmi Mittal won a takeover battle — and taught the world a lesson

  • Vladimir Putin: Turning Energy Into Power
    Oil has troubled the waters for Russia's President

  • Would a Troop Surge in Iraq Work?
    In some Baghdad neighborhoods, more U.S. soldiers have helped bring down violence. In other troubled regions like Anbar Province, they may exacerbate it

  • A Setback for Ahmadinejad
    The rejection of his candidates in municipal elections highlights the domestic weaknesses of Iran's fiery president

  • Time's Person of the Year: You
    In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter

  • Nicholas Stern: Calculating the Cost Of Climate Change
    Tony Blair's top economist wants more than wasted hot air

  • Russia Tries to Look Relevant
    Its presence at the talks is not matched by any leverage

  • A Fond Farewell
    A last goodbye to those we lost in 2006

  • Two for the Road
    The Presnyakov brothers' witty, disturbing plays about Russian life are worldwide hits

  • The Great China Sale
    Foreign collectors want them. Newly minted local millionaires want them. The rise and rise of the country's modern artists

  • 10 Best
    TIME's pick of the year's top books from Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and the films that lit up 2006

  • The Princess Is Dead. Long Live the Princess
    Scotland Yard debunks the conspiracy theories, but the mythology of Diana seems to only get stronger

  • A Dead Man's Walk Ends Far from Home
    How Gregory Summers, a Texan triple-murder convict, came to rest in Italy

  • Teaching Old Dog Owners New Tricks
    New European governments aim to clean up their streets with a pet project

  • Ignorance is a Killer
    In The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson charts a Victorian cholera outbreak with lessons for the world today

  • Iran Reacts Favorably to the Baker-Hamilton Plan
    While the White House remains wary of the proposal to talk with Iran, Tehran sources tell TIME that the regime believes such talks are in the country's best interest

  • Slow Train to Europe
    As talks over Cyprus grind to a halt, Turkey's membership of the E.U. looks ever more distant

  • Dollar Doldrums
    A stalling U.S. economy means the dollar’s slide may not be over

  • Russia's Bitter Chill
    Much has changed in Russia since the end of Soviet rule. But the mysterious death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, a recently vocal critic of the Kremlin, has raised fears among the country's new dissidents


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