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$2.6 Trillion Worth of Disasters

By Zubin JelvehDec 31st 2009 – 5:33PM
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(Dec. 31) – If you've sipped at all from the certifiable torrent of retrospectives that have appeared in the past few weeks, you've been reminded why the 2000s were a period we'd all surely like to forget. This was a decade the started with a recession, terrorist attacks and two wars, then ended with a more severe...

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GADLING

New Mid-Layers from Triple Aught Design

By Pam Mandel Aug 23rd 2011 - 04:05PM

I'm struggling with the answer to that question as I eye the gear that's coming out for fall.

Background on aughts

The decade from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1909 is sometimes referred to as the 1900s, "the nineteen hundreds", although this term can equally be used for the years 1900–1999. "The aughts" or "naughts" (aught-aught through aught-nine) was one of the more popular contemporary terms for this decade.

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