10 Years Ago – In January 2002

Many years ago I started collecting headlines as a way of honing my reading of news. Over the years, the headline collection has been warped by the sources of news I was reading…increasingly online. I recently looked back to the January 2002 headline collection and picked 10. 

1. Dave Thomas (Wendy’s) dies
2. Ford cutting 35,000 jobs
3. Enron scandal
4. Cuba base for war on terrorism detainees
5. The color of the universe is light turquoise
6. A 984-foot-wide asteroid, discovered Dec. 26 and labeled as being potentially hazardous by NASA, came within 516,000 miles of hitting Earth
7. Dead Sea is Sinking Lower
8. Kmart files chapter 11
9. Amateur satellite doing well in orbit
10. Ex-UK PM Thatcher suffers stroke

Were these the most important things in the news 10 years ago? Some may have been (Enron and Cuban base). Others were simply things I was interested in at the time. I enjoyed looking at the whole list and forcing myself to pick 10. It somehow gave the current news more perspective.