11.   In the new decade, Americans are discovering Atlantic Canada, from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland to Labrador, and north into the eastern Arctic.

12.   Lawsuits are a certainty, as they follow every census in challenges to redistricting plans that continue well into a new decade.

13.   On the theory that things cannot get much worse, Latin America is looking to the start of the new decade with anticipation.

14.   On the eve of the new decade, the new century, and the new millennium, pop culture moves at the speed of light.

15.   Parr said he hopes the new decade quiets the e-commerce buzz, molding the network back into a true information medium and less of a shopping tool.

16.   Reader Doug Butler, for one, would call the new decade the naughties, and naught would certainly be more numerically correct.

17.   Spelling is counting on the dawn of the new decade to cast a similar glow on the viewing populace.

18.   The U.S. foreign policy standard of the new decade may be that.

19.   While these traditional careers are being revamped, everyone agrees that information technology is the fastest-growing field in the new decade.

20.   The advent of a new decade, new century, new millennium heralds a time when tired words of the past year can be redefined or discarded.