YouTube Turns 5

American Voices

May 19, 2010 | ISSUE 46•20

Video sharing website YouTube turned five on Monday. What do you think?

Wow, it feels like just yesterday when I used to go outside."

Juliet Morris
Naturalist
That reminds me, I'm in the mood to watch someone's balls get destroyed."

Hank Rollins
Systems Analyst
I'm flattered. You've obviously chosen to interview me because you recognize me from my YouTube video “Dancing In 100 Bathtubs.” No? Back in April? C'mon, man, that was on CNN for two seconds."

Ben Cadena
Gunsmith

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.