Remember how it felt? No one who watched the terrorist attacks on New York
unfolding will ever forget 11 September 2001. And then, as the US was gearing up to
wage war on terror, the anthrax letters started arriving. Meanwhile Britain was
battling foot and mouth, the International Space Station was crippled by budget
cuts, and advances in controversial techniques like cloning left regulators
floundering.
But 2001 hasn’t all been bad. There’ve been breakthroughs in cancer drugs and
encouraging results in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine. On the following pages you
can find out how these events are shaping the world. Look out for 2002. It looks
set to be another bumpy ride
