Five Years of Consequence

By Ben Schott, the author of Schott’s Original Miscellany and the forthcoming Schott’s Almanac 2007, a yearbook of American society (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/09/06):

It’s been nearly five years since 9/11, but it seems like a lifetime. Certainly, a lifetime’s worth of events for America and the world — elections and insurgencies, hurricanes and tsunamis, attacks and threats of attack — have unfolded with such speed that it can be hard to sort through, or even recall, everything of consequence. The chart below is an attempt, admittedly selective and incomplete, to survey the first five years of our post-9/11 world — a world that is certainly new, though not always brave.

Five Years of Consequence