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How did the Metsâ entire season come to depend so much on a young pitcher, Philip Humber, who had never started in the major leagues until Wednesday night?
An immigrant band wouldnât raise an eyebrow in the United States, but it does in Europe, especially in Italy.
A consortium that had agreed to buy the student lender Sallie Mae for $25 billion said Wednesday that it was unwilling to complete the deal at the current price.
New Yorkers are forced to make the most of small spaces, but it is unlikely that many have done it as gracefully and inexpensively as Mark Robohm and his partner, Stephanie Doucette.
Security forces in Myanmar went into at least two Buddhist monasteries early today, beating and arresting dozens of monks.
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The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 2007, covering September 27, 2007.
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Kenny Chesney
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Miley Cyrus
2007Dale Houston, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)[â ]
Dale & Grace was an American singing duo consisting of Dale Houston and Grace Broussard. They had two Billboard chart hit. The first was the No. 1 gold record "I'm Leaving It Up to You" in 1963. "Stop and Think It Over" reached No. 8 in 1964. The duo broke up in 1965, but they reunited onstage on several occasions. Their recordings are highly regarded examples of the Louisiana-Texas style known as "Swamp Pop".
2007Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and journalist (born 1957)[â ]
Kenji Nagai was a Japanese photojournalist who took many assignments to conflict zones and dangerous areas around the world.
2007NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.[â ]
Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In the fulfillment of that missionâthe ninth in NASA's Discovery ProgramâDawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011, and completed a 14-month survey mission before leaving for Ceres in late 2012. It entered orbit around Ceres on March 6, 2015. In 2017, NASA announced that the planned nine-year mission would be extended until the probe's hydrazine fuel supply was depleted. On November 1, 2018, NASA announced that Dawn had depleted its hydrazine, and the mission was ended. The derelict probe remains in a stable orbit around Ceres.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[â ]