Summary Box: in 2004, Few Big Changes
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LITTLE CHANGE: Three-quarters of voters will use the same machines as in 2000. Nearly 30 percent will vote on punch card and lever machines regarded as unreliable.
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One year on and deregulation disappoints
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Start-ups came back in style. IPO fever gripped Silicon Valley. Blogging went mainstream. 2004 was a year of dubious distinctions along with steady innovation and successes. -The Washington Post
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This weekend's early switch to daylight-saving time was billed as a little re-enactment of the Y2K computer problem at the turn of the millennium. And as it happened, the daylight bug appeared to have equally minor results.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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An earnings restatement driven by accounting changes doesn't change the big picture.
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Few recent changes have affected life in Hong Kong more than the opening of the border with the mainland.
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2003-2004 have been pretty dismal in terms of new talent.
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The fourth-quarter news isn't exactly peachy, but quality will out.
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The move to daylight-saving time in the U.S. arrived without major troubles for IT operations.
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The US economy created less jobs than expected in December,  but created more jobs in 2004 than any time since 1999.
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Sun Microsystems makes some progress, but the results could have been so much better.
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2004 turned out to be a tough year for the predictors
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Looking ahead to 2008, here are three subjects we hope to hear more about--and a few we'd like to hear less about.
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Highlights of what Congress has done &#151; and has not done &#151; this year.
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Asian economies are heading for robust economic growth in 2004, followed by a slight slowdown in 2005, the Asian Development Bank has said.
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'Substantial progress in the last year'