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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
2007Bill Pinkney, American singer (born 1925)[†]
Willie "Bill" Pinkney was an American performer and singer. Pinkney was the last surviving original member of The Drifters, who achieved international fame with numerous hit records. He was chiefly responsible for its early sounds. The Drifters have had a strong influence on soul, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll music. As an original group member, Bill Pinkney was a 1988 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with The Drifters.
Similarities have linked Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. But controversy has stained only Bonds, who is still under investigation for perjury in the court case dealing with the Balco steroid scandal.
European theme parks are drawing investors, most notably from private equity funds.
A statue has become a blazing symbol of Italy’s legal and moral battle against foreign museums and private collectors.
Increasingly, people are blaming the farm bill for some of the problems afflicting the country: the growth in obesity, the increase in food poisonings, and the disappearance of the family farm.
Florida’s season of “sturgeon strikes” — collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters — is under way.
An economist has found that after an electronic system is put in place, tolls start rising sharply.
For many New Yorkers, the Fourth of July holiday started somewhere around June 29, last Friday, and won’t end until this Sunday, July 8.
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” does not open in theaters in the United States and Europe until Wednesday, but the reviews are already rolling in.
Rafael Nadal was distressed by Wimbledon’s tumultuous weather and traditional ways after Day 1 of a third-round odyssey against Robin Soderling that will continue into a fifth day Wednesday.
In different ways, Chien-Ming Wang and Alex Rodriguez boosted the spirits of the struggling Yankees in a victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.
The firm immortalized in “Barbarians at the Gate” filed documents for an offering that would raise $1.25 billion.
President Bush drew on arguments about federal sentencing that are opposed by his own administration.