The Ambivalent Bond With a Ball of Fur
By Natalie Angier
The death of a pet is very different than the death of a family member or friend. The pain tends to be felt in the details.
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On this day
October 2, 2007
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Headlines from October 2, 2007
Nokia Does a Map Deal, Signaling Strategic Bet
By Laura M. Holson
Nokia is buying Navteq, the maker of digital mapping and navigational software, for $8.1 billion, as it seeks to migrate location services onto its range of phones.
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Seeking a Moral at the End of the Tale
By Michiko Kakutani
Philip Roth has created a melancholy, if occasionally funny, meditation on aging, mortality, loneliness and the losses that come with the passage of time.
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Bloodied in Battle, Now Getting Their Due
By David Gonzalez
Ken Burns has been criticized for ignoring Latino contributions during World War II, but another documentary gives a once-storied Puerto Rican regiment its due.
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A Woman Vanishes in a Trail of Drama
By Alessandra Stanley
“Five Days,” made by the BBC and HBO, is riveting because it weaves the most familiar milestones of a major homicide investigation into a less predictable and intricately layered narrative.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 2007, covering October 2, 2007.
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Graduation
Kanye West
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Curtis
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Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
Kenny Chesney
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High School Musical 2
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Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus
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Notable Deaths
2007Tex Coulter, American football player (born 1924)[†]
DeWitt Echoles "Tex" Coulter was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union for the Montreal Alouettes. Coulter attended the United States Military Academy, where he played football and competed in the shot put.
2007George Grizzard, American actor (born 1928)[†]
George Cooper Grizzard Jr. was an American stage, television, and film actor. He was the recipient of a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award, among other accolades.
2007Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (born 1902)[†]
Daniel Keating was a lifelong Irish republican and former president of the Republican Sinn Féin. At the time of his death, he was Ireland's oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.
Historical Events
2007President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.[†]
Inter-Korean summits are meetings between the leaders of North and South Korea. To date, there have been five such meetings so far, three of them being in Pyongyang, with another two in Panmunjom. The importance of these summits lies in the lack of formal communication between North and South Korea, which makes discussing political and economic issues difficult. The summits' agendas have included topics such as the ending of the 1950-53 war, the massive deployment of troops at the DMZ, the development of nuclear weapons by North Korea, and human rights issues.
Historical Context for October 2, 2007
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]