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After their loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, the Giants were faced with a riddle: How can a team that has lost five of its past six games still sit in a playoff spot?
Ms. Regan seemed to cross a line bordering on mania after her motives in interviewing O.J. Simpson for “If I Did It” were questioned.
Future of Atlantic Yards redevelopment project in Brooklyn hinges on approval of State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who controls one of three votes on Public Authorities Control Board; Silver has voiced support for project, but has stalled major ones in past; photo (M)
Denver Nuggets player Carmelo Anthony is likely to be suspended for role in fight during game against New York Knicks, and may have undone efforts this year to stand out as top player; photos (M)
Article in series City Limits, on Shenzhen's growth into booming Chinese metropolis; 26-year-old boomtown is first city to enjoy effects of China's breakneck economic expansion and has served as model for cities throughout country; but with growing pains multiplying, Shenzhen looks like preview, even warning, of limitations of kind of growth-above-all approach that has gripped much of China; city's skies are thick with smoke, street crime is high, and workers are becoming harder to recruit; on positive side is quiet expansion of middle class, which is beginning to chafe under authoritarian rule; it is no accident that it was in Shenzhen that residents successfully fought government plans to build expressway that would cut through heart of middle-class neighborhood; over time, quiet, well-organized challenges of newly affluent may have deepest impact on China's future; academics and others note that city's proximity to Hong Kong has made it unusually open to outside influences; but even with all its political activity, China is long way from participatory democracy, even at local level; photos; map (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 2006, covering December 18, 2006.
Incubus
Soundtrack
Daughtry
Various Artists
The Beatles
2006Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (born 1911)[†]
Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera.
2006Ruth Bernhard, German-American photographer (born 1905)[†]
Ruth Bernhard was a German-born American photographer.
2006Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and activist (born 1923)[†]
Shaukat Siddiqi was a Pakistani writer of fiction who wrote in Urdu language. He is best known for his novels Khuda Ki Basti and Jangloos.
2006The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.[†]
The 2006–2007 Southeast Asian floods were a series of floods that mostly affected Malaysia from 18 December 2006 to 13 January 2007. The floods were caused by above average rainfall, which was attributed to Typhoon Utor (2006) which had hit the Philippines and Vietnam a few days earlier. By the third week of January 2007, Johor had been affected by a larger flood. Singapore and certain parts of Indonesia were flooded due to the same typhoon.
2006United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.[†]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a federal semi-constitutional monarchy made up of seven emirates, with Abu Dhabi serving as its capital. It shares land borders with Oman to the east and northeast, and with Saudi Arabia to the southwest; as well as maritime borders in the Persian Gulf with Qatar and Iran, and with Oman in the Gulf of Oman. As of 2024, the UAE has an estimated population of over 10 million, of which 11% are Emiratis; Dubai is its most populous city and is an international hub. Islam is the official religion and Arabic is the official language, while English is the most spoken language and the language of business.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]