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San Diego editors review the top stories that impacted the region in 2009 and how they may play out in 2010.

Americans are so relentlessly focused on positive thinking, writes Barbara Ehrenreich in her book "Bright-Sided," that there is little room for genuine hope or happiness or planning for downturns and disasters.

Inglorious Basterds and Nine Lead with 10 Nominations Each

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, joins U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry in testimony to Congress a week after President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy. McChrystal said there are no "silver bullets" for success in Afghanistan.

The two top U.S. military and civilian officials in Afghanistan presented a united front before Congress on Tuesday as they defended the new war strategy that President Obama unveiled last week

The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.

Ben Bernanke is widely credited with helping keep the "Great Recession" from becoming a second Great Depression. But the Federal Reserve chairman faces anger from both Congress and the public for bailing out Wall Street, while ordinary Americans are struggling under the crush of high unemployment, stagnant incomes and rising foreclosures.

News from Yemen has been dominated recently by an escalating rebellion along the border with Saudi Arabia. But the country has been making news for decades because of its severe overuse of a rapidly disappearing water supply, the result of natural and political causes.

The president uses a town hall-style meeting with university students in Shanghai to focus on human rights, one of the trickiest issues separating China's communist government and the United States. Later, President Obama met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing.

President Obama sat down with the Chinese leader Monday night, hours after he pointedly nudged his host country to stop censoring the Internet access, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House — and suggested Beijing need not fear a little criticism.