AP bolts the workshop doors until all the little elves hammer out their that-was-the-year-that-was clip jobs. Bonuses: Pre-holiday depression, via the sports department. And yes, this will be on the final.
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NEW YORK -- From Hurricane Sandy to the civil war in Syria, The Associated Press will look back at the big events that shaped 2012 in a series of text and multimedia stories. These highlights in the weeks ahead were listed in an advisory distributed to member news organizations:
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Sports: While there were certainly stories to savor, 2012 may be remembered as a year where so much sports news was simply bad. AP will also reveal the Sports Story of the Year and Male and Female Athletes of the Year, as determined by sports editors at AP member news organizations.
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Multimedia: An interactive will quiz readers on the top news stories of the year and look at notable people who died in 2012.
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