P&B Online / Pensions & Benefits USA Church of the Nazarene

The full-color graphic on the front page of the Kansas City Star was nothing like I expected for a Thanksgiving Day (2009). A tiny, token cartoon turkey sat on the top of the narrow left column. In contrast, a large graphic splattered two-thirds of the front page: a spherical depiction of the northern hemisphere of the earth with the middle part of the earth crumbling and cascading into the southern hemisphere which took on the shape of a box. “What just happened?” the article began. “The first decade of the 2000s—a decade that nobody can agree what to call, but ‘uh-ohs’ has been suggested—is nearing its close. Expectations of 10 years ago have been blown apart, more than once, and re-assembled” … MORE