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March 27, 2007

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Headlines from March 27, 2007

Boomers: Whimpers or Bangs?

By Felicia R. Lee

A documentary on PBS explores how life after 60 might look to the generation known for challenging authority and redefining everything from race relations to marriage.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 2007, covering March 27, 2007.

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    Album cover for Greatest Hits by The Notorious B.I.G.

    Greatest Hits

    The Notorious B.I.G.

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    1
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    Album cover for Neon Bible by Arcade Fire

    Neon Bible

    Arcade Fire

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    2
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    1
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    Album cover for Daughtry by Daughtry

    Daughtry

    Daughtry

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    16
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    Album cover for Konvicted by Akon

    Konvicted

    Akon

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    2
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    17
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    Album cover for Greatest Hits by Gary Allan

    Greatest Hits

    Gary Allan

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    1

Notable Deaths

2007Nancy Adams, New Zealand botanist and illustrator (born 1926)[†]

Jacqueline Nancy Mary Adams was a New Zealand botanical illustrator, botanical collector, phycologist and museum curator. Throughout her career (1943–1987), she worked at DSIR and later at the Dominion Museum in different roles as technician, artist and assistant curator of botany. Largely self-taught, Adams collected over 3300 botanical specimens in New Zealand, illustrated nearly forty publications on algae and other native plants, and authored numerous scientific publications. Her major work, Seaweeds of New Zealand – An Illustrated Guide, was published in 1994.

Paul Lauterbur

2007Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)[†]

Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.

Historical Context for March 27, 2007

In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]