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Two reports call into question some of New York City Transitâs most basic practices, including how employees are chosen for promotion.
A 20-year-old summer program gym coordinator played a key role in saving children in a trapped bus.
TNTâs spicy drama about the Central Intelligence Agency harks back to the days when the lines of battle were clearly drawn, and the enemy played by the same rules and was easy to spot.
The Dodgers scheduled their steroids awareness clinic for the day that Barry Bonds was to finish a three-game series at Dodger Stadium.
Fierce currents and giant, unsteady shards of steel and concrete repeatedly halted rescue attempts for those reported missing and feared dead in Minneapolis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 1, 2007, covering August 3, 2007.
Various Artists
Miley Cyrus
T.I.
Soundtrack
Colbie Caillat
2007John Gardner, English author (born 1926)[â ]
John Edmund Gardner was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.
2007Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)[â ]
Peter Eiberg Thorup was a Danish guitarist, singer, composer and record producer. He was one of the most important blues musicians in Denmark, and he was known outside his own country, when in the late 1960s he met Alexis Korner and the two formed the bands New Church, The Beefeaters, CCS, and later Snape.
2007Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police RaĂșl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.[â ]
The DirecciĂłn de Inteligencia Nacional was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The DINA has been referred to as "Pinochet's Gestapo". Established in November 1973 as a Chilean Army intelligence unit headed by Colonel Manuel Contreras and vice-director RaĂșl Iturriaga, the DINA was then separated from the army and made an independent administrative unit in June 1974 under the auspices of Decree 521. The DINA existed until 1977, after which it was renamed the Central Nacional de Informaciones or CNI.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[â ]