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The obsession with Barry Bonds has obscured the fact that only eight teams will qualify for the postseason, and that Mets fans and Red Sox fans have been sounding a trifle nervous in recent days.
As in a 2004 storm, officials blamed overwhelmed pumps and the city’s sewers for crippling the subway system.
A reasonable assumption might be that the closing of six theaters in the last two years is ushering in the decline of commercial Off Broadway. But it turns out the situation is more complicated than that.
In making public their suspicion about the flaw, officials were signaling a potentially crucial discovery and a safety concern for other bridges.
President Bush described the economy as “thriving” and said lower taxes are the best way to guarantee prosperity.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 8, 2007, covering August 9, 2007.
Various Artists
Soundtrack
Prince
Miley Cyrus
T.I.
2007Joe O'Donnell, American photographer and journalist (born 1922)[†]
Joseph Roger O'Donnell was an American documentarian, photojournalist and a photographer for the United States Information Agency.
2007Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board.[†]
Air Moorea Flight 1121 was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter which crashed into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Moorea Airport on Moorea Island in French Polynesia on 9 August 2007 killing all 20 people on board.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]