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If carried out fully, Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s pledges on health insurance would cut the number of uninsured New Yorkers in half.
Much of the intrigue surrounding the Giants’ playoff game against the Eagles on Sunday is not simply from the result on the field, but from what it might do to the team’s and Coach Tom Coughlin's long-term future.
Instead of going after 44-year-old Roger Clemens, the Yankees should take a lesson from Mets General Manager Omar Minaya and seek out relatively obscure pitchers on their way up.
Warner Brothers plans to announce a single videodisc that can play films and television programs in both Blu-ray and HD-DVD, the rival DVD technologies.
Nighttime self-improvement tapes are making a comeback on the Web.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 3, 2007, covering January 4, 2007.
Nas
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Carrie Underwood
The Beatles
2007Helen Hill, American director and producer (born 1970)[†]
Helen Wingard Hill was an American artist, filmmaker, writer, teacher, and social activist. When her final film, The Florestine Collection, was released in 2011, curators and critics praised her work and legacy, describing her, for example, as "one of the most well-regarded experimental animators of her generation".
2007Marais Viljoen, South African politician, 5th State President of South Africa (born 1915)[†]
Marais Viljoen, was the last ceremonial State President of South Africa from 4 June 1979 until 3 September 1984. Viljoen became the last of the ceremonial presidents of South Africa when he was succeeded in 1984 by Prime Minister P. W. Botha, who combined the offices into an executive state presidency.
2007The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.[†]
The 110th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, between January 3, 2007, and January 3, 2009, during the last two years of the Presidency of George W. Bush. It was composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The apportionment of seats in the House was based on the 2000 U.S. census.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]