Today, USA TODAY editors and reporters pick the 5 most important trends of the past quarter-century.
1Diversity
Record immigration creates unparalleled racial and ethnic diversity. Hispanics overtake blacks as the largest minority. The federal government lets people identify themselves as of more than one race. Tikka Masala, edamame. and mole sauce join the lingo. American culture gets Latinized. There's a backlash -- the English-as-an-official language movement.
2Fighting for equality
More women in the workplace. More poor women on the job, off welfare. The income gap between the sexes narrows -- in 2005, women earned 77 cents for every dollar men make. Title IX. Mainstreaming the disabled.
3Millions living longer
The oldest of 79 million baby boomers turn 61 this year. Twenty-five years ago, the oldest were 36. Cost of health care multiplies. People have multiple careers. More life stages, from three generations to six (tweeners, 20-somethings, middle-age, young old, old, oldest old).
4It's a small world after all
Globalization takes hold. NAFTA. European Union. India and China emerge as economic powerhouses. Outsourcing.
5Global warming
The worry over climate change becomes so widespread that average folks discuss their carbon footprint. The Kyoto Accord. The shrinking polar ice cap. Melting glaciers. Monster hurricanes. El Niño, La Niña.
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Daylight Mass Nibiru/UFO Sighting Captured In Video Camera at Kendari, Indonesia
Share16 Daylight Mass Nibiru/UFO Sighting Captured In Video Camera at Kendari, Indonesia
According Indonesian news channel "Seputar Indonesia", Daylight UFO was accidentally recorded by cell phone cam.
English translation of above news report :
A mysterious object/UFO was videotaped by a student in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
When students were their way back home, from school at around one o clock on June 3, 2010 they had noticed the sun looks different from another day.
Students then start capturing the sun via mobile camera as they couldn't see the sun so well with their naked eye, because it was a bright sunny day.
Fahlidar Adi Putra, one of the junior high school ninth graders students who also record the video.
Fahlidar said “I was actually trying to capture the sun on his camera that happened seemed to me like a ring or halo.”
But however on the clips the saucer UFO seems to have color full radiation around it.
They tried to capture it again from their phone cameras; but the UFO had already vanished
Share16 Daylight Mass Nibiru/UFO Sighting Captured In Video Camera at Kendari, Indonesia
According Indonesian news channel "Seputar Indonesia", Daylight UFO was accidentally recorded by cell phone cam.
English translation of above news report :
A mysterious object/UFO was videotaped by a student in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
When students were their way back home, from school at around one o clock on June 3, 2010 they had noticed the sun looks different from another day.
Students then start capturing the sun via mobile camera as they couldn't see the sun so well with their naked eye, because it was a bright sunny day.
Fahlidar Adi Putra, one of the junior high school ninth graders students who also record the video.
Fahlidar said “I was actually trying to capture the sun on his camera that happened seemed to me like a ring or halo.”
But however on the clips the saucer UFO seems to have color full radiation around it.
They tried to capture it again from their phone cameras; but the UFO had already vanished
Barack Obama has urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
Barack Obama has urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak "to make the right decision" to end weeks of unrest, and reiterated a call for an orderly transition of power "that begins now".
However the US president stopped short of telling Mr Mubarak to step down immediately.
He spoke as huge crowds demonstrated across Egypt for an 11th day, demanding that Mr Mubarak resign.
But PM Ahmed Shafiq said it would not be practical for the president to go.
He told the BBC Mr Mubarak's declaration on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election in September was tantamount to him standing down.
"In effect, the president has stepped down already," Mr Shafiq said. "We need him during these nine months."
He separately told al-Arabiya TV that it was unlikely Mr Mubarak would hand over power to his new Vice-President, Omar Suleiman, because the president was needed "for legislative reasons".
Barack Obama: "We want to see this moment of turmoil turn into a moment of opportunity"
Meanwhile, there were suggestions that the protesters would reduce their presence in central Cairo, holding big demonstrations only on Fridays, with smaller numbers there at other times.
'World is watching'
More than 100,000 people - including large numbers of women and children - gathered in Tahrir Square in the centre of Cairo on Friday for what was being called the "day of departure".
At noon, thousands paused for Friday prayers with one cleric declaring: "We want the head of the regime removed."
As the prayers finished, demonstrators renewed their chants of "Leave! Leave! Leave!", singing patriotic songs and waving flags.
Some people left as darkness fell, but thousands remained the square.
Continue reading the main story
At the scene
image of John Simpson John Simpson World Affairs Editor, BBC News, Tahrir Square
So the "day of departure" has not after all ended with President Mubarak leaving, which makes him - for the time being at least - the winner of the stand-off here.
It would require something much bigger from the demonstrators now to shift him, and it is hard to see what that might be.
Still, as the country's new prime minister told the BBC, President Mubarak is in the process of standing down; it is just taking a bit of time.
He was much too respectful to add that what is really at stake is an old man's pride, which has been offended by the demands that he should step aside. He will go, but it will be in his own time.
The cost of all this has been ferocious. One bank has estimated that Egypt has been losing $310m a day in lost revenue, around two billion pounds in total, because of the turmoil. And this is not a rich country.
There were also demonstrations in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, and in the towns of Suez, Port Said, Rafah, Ismailiya, Zagazig, al-Mahalla al-Kubra, Aswan and Asyut.
In Washington Mr Obama told reporters: "The whole world is watching."
He said he had been encouraged by the restraint shown by both the authorities and the protesters after two days of clashes which have left eight people dead and more than 800 injured.
The UN believes more than 300 have died across Egypt since the protests began on 25 January, with about 4,000 hurt.
Mr Obama did not insist that Mr Mubarak step down immediately, but repeated his call for a "transition period that begins now".
"He needs to listen to what is voiced by the people and make a judgment about a pathway forward that is orderly, that is meaningful and serious," he said.
"The key question he should be asking himself is: how do I leave a legacy behind in which Egypt is able to get through this transformative period? My hope is he will end up making the right decision."
BBC North America editor Mark Mardell says Mr Obama went further than before in suggesting that the Egyptian president should go, but could not quite bring himself - no doubt for very good diplomatic reasons - to say the words.
Continue reading the main story
“Start Quote
We want a civil state, based on Islamic principles”
End Quote Issam al-Aryan Muslim Brotherhood
The Obama administration is relieved that Friday's huge protests did not turn nasty, because violence is the biggest threat to the change it wants, our correspondent says.
There were real nerves in Washington that the army would be forced to choose between their commander-in-chief and the people, he adds. Instead they remained neutral, keeping the rival groups of demonstrators apart.
Opposition talks
The opposition has so far refused to attend any talks on a future government unless President Mubarak steps down, while the government says protesters must go home for talks to be held.
A US official told the BBC a meeting could be held in the coming days, and that the US was urging the government to move ahead with the dialogue.
However the US president stopped short of telling Mr Mubarak to step down immediately.
He spoke as huge crowds demonstrated across Egypt for an 11th day, demanding that Mr Mubarak resign.
But PM Ahmed Shafiq said it would not be practical for the president to go.
He told the BBC Mr Mubarak's declaration on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election in September was tantamount to him standing down.
"In effect, the president has stepped down already," Mr Shafiq said. "We need him during these nine months."
He separately told al-Arabiya TV that it was unlikely Mr Mubarak would hand over power to his new Vice-President, Omar Suleiman, because the president was needed "for legislative reasons".
Barack Obama: "We want to see this moment of turmoil turn into a moment of opportunity"
Meanwhile, there were suggestions that the protesters would reduce their presence in central Cairo, holding big demonstrations only on Fridays, with smaller numbers there at other times.
'World is watching'
More than 100,000 people - including large numbers of women and children - gathered in Tahrir Square in the centre of Cairo on Friday for what was being called the "day of departure".
At noon, thousands paused for Friday prayers with one cleric declaring: "We want the head of the regime removed."
As the prayers finished, demonstrators renewed their chants of "Leave! Leave! Leave!", singing patriotic songs and waving flags.
Some people left as darkness fell, but thousands remained the square.
Continue reading the main story
At the scene
image of John Simpson John Simpson World Affairs Editor, BBC News, Tahrir Square
So the "day of departure" has not after all ended with President Mubarak leaving, which makes him - for the time being at least - the winner of the stand-off here.
It would require something much bigger from the demonstrators now to shift him, and it is hard to see what that might be.
Still, as the country's new prime minister told the BBC, President Mubarak is in the process of standing down; it is just taking a bit of time.
He was much too respectful to add that what is really at stake is an old man's pride, which has been offended by the demands that he should step aside. He will go, but it will be in his own time.
The cost of all this has been ferocious. One bank has estimated that Egypt has been losing $310m a day in lost revenue, around two billion pounds in total, because of the turmoil. And this is not a rich country.
There were also demonstrations in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, and in the towns of Suez, Port Said, Rafah, Ismailiya, Zagazig, al-Mahalla al-Kubra, Aswan and Asyut.
In Washington Mr Obama told reporters: "The whole world is watching."
He said he had been encouraged by the restraint shown by both the authorities and the protesters after two days of clashes which have left eight people dead and more than 800 injured.
The UN believes more than 300 have died across Egypt since the protests began on 25 January, with about 4,000 hurt.
Mr Obama did not insist that Mr Mubarak step down immediately, but repeated his call for a "transition period that begins now".
"He needs to listen to what is voiced by the people and make a judgment about a pathway forward that is orderly, that is meaningful and serious," he said.
"The key question he should be asking himself is: how do I leave a legacy behind in which Egypt is able to get through this transformative period? My hope is he will end up making the right decision."
BBC North America editor Mark Mardell says Mr Obama went further than before in suggesting that the Egyptian president should go, but could not quite bring himself - no doubt for very good diplomatic reasons - to say the words.
Continue reading the main story
“Start Quote
We want a civil state, based on Islamic principles”
End Quote Issam al-Aryan Muslim Brotherhood
The Obama administration is relieved that Friday's huge protests did not turn nasty, because violence is the biggest threat to the change it wants, our correspondent says.
There were real nerves in Washington that the army would be forced to choose between their commander-in-chief and the people, he adds. Instead they remained neutral, keeping the rival groups of demonstrators apart.
Opposition talks
The opposition has so far refused to attend any talks on a future government unless President Mubarak steps down, while the government says protesters must go home for talks to be held.
A US official told the BBC a meeting could be held in the coming days, and that the US was urging the government to move ahead with the dialogue.
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