Posted: The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2008

Posted By Joshua Keating Sunday, December 7, 2008 - 1:21 PM Share

There was more to the monumental changes of 2008 than meets the eye.

As the world debated a new president's foreign policy vision, a key component of his platform was already being implemented.

As the United States watched to see how an emerging China would react under the spotlight of the Olympic Games, a U.S. company was selling its authoritarian government the tools it would need to crush dissent.

As renewed tension between Russia and the West provoked fears of a new Cold War, some of Russia's most aggressive international moves were taking place far from the Caucasus or Eastern Europe in the oil fields of Central Africa.

And as "green" became the year’s biggest buzzword, scientists discovered that environmentalists' favorite power source might be even more harmful than the fossil fuels it was designed to replace.

FP's "Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2008" features the page A14 stories that reveal as much about what happened in 2008 as those on page A1. More importantly, they may be clues to what the lead headlines will be in 2009.

Check it out.

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