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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
2007Chandra Shekhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (born 1927)[†]
Chandra Shekhar, also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.
2007Jack B. Sowards, American screenwriter and producer (born 1929)[†]
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter who wrote Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and the 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where Silence Has Lease". Sowards created the term Kobayashi Maru, naming it for his next-door neighbors in Hancock Park.
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Classic ditties, dirty jokes: The phonograph was an outlet for both in the 1890s. Some of the lewd material is part of a new collection.
Akin to Spanish paradores, the Portuguese inns known as pousadas include manor houses, monasteries and palaces tucked into nature preserves and mountain ranges.
A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
A family has held onto a beach retreat, even as the meadows around it filled with houses and land values grew dear.
With the introduction of the CX-9 crossover wagon, Mazda’s family is growing in an unusual fashion: the newest arrival is the bigger member of the household.
It remains to be seen whether even endless expenditures can hold back the steady erosion of Nantucket Island.
It is increasingly impossible for any Beltway inhabitant to marginalize W.W.E. as a farce when farce is braided with sports in so many ways.
As the region’s outlying cities seek revitalization, many are turning to towers.
A youth movement seeks the ideological cultivation, some say indoctrination, of the first generation to come of age in post-Soviet Russia.
Three innings after making an amazing, game-saving catch, Carlos Beltrán helped the Mets emerge with a winning record on their 11-game, 10-day trip.
School officials thought they found a book that would get teens to read during summer. Some parents call the book pornographic.
Volunteers are finding it hard to live in the suburban villages they risk their lives to serve.