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Remembering a year we’d like to forget
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get a year-end issue out of it.
When the National Hurricane Center ran out of storm names and started going Greek alphabet on us, most of us just laughed -- but only a little. The storms overwhelmed our senses this year, yet while we were breathing generator fumes and showering at strangers' houses, the world kept turning.

So long, mortal coil
Many intriguing people passed over to the Great Beyond in 2005. The world will be a less-interesting place without them.
Don Adams, 72, actor. Adams voiced Inspector Gadget for the popular children's cartoon and played the bumbling agent Maxwell Smart in the TV series Get Smart, a character The 40-Year-Old Virgin's Steve Carell will revive in next year's big-screen remake.

Quotes of the year