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In his remarkable new memoir, the composer Allen Shawn unsparingly dissects his own phobias and examines research into the psychology of his affliction.
As Ben S. Bernanke celebrates his first anniversary as Fed chief, the Fed is still far away from acting on his major proposal of setting an explicit target for inflation.
The president of New Yorkâs largest health care union issued a surprisingly pointed broadside against Gov. Eliot Spitzerâs planned cuts in health care spending.
A record bull market is pulling in new investors but causing concern among the countryâs senior officials.
Wallace Shawnâs monologue on egoism and materialism would cut deeper into the consciousness of its well-meaning, liberally inclined audience if it were shorter.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 24, 2007, covering January 30, 2007.
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Akon
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Daughtry
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2007Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (born 1917)[â ]
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. He went on to work in television, where over twenty years he created The Patty Duke Show (1963â66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965â70), and Hart to Hart (1979â84). After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973), and Rage of Angels (1980).
2007Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel.[â ]
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields. Microsoft is the largest software maker, one of the most valuable public U.S. companies, and one of the most valuable brands globally.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[â ]