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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
2007Washoe, American chimpanzee (born 1965)[†]
Washoe was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using signs adapted from American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition.
2007Robert Goulet, American actor and singer (born 1933)[†]
Robert Gérard Goulet was an American‐Canadian singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, until age 13, and then spent his formative years in Canada.
2007Linda S. Stein, American businesswoman and manager (born 1945)[†]
Linda Stein was an American rock music manager and real estate broker.
2007John Woodruff, American runner and colonel (born 1915)[†]
John Youie "Long John" Woodruff was an American middle-distance runner, winner of the 800 meter event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Robert L. Nardelli, Chrysler’s new chief who earlier ran Home Depot, spoke about the auto industry in terms that suggested he was still in a home-improvement state of mind.
Whether Alex Rodriguez or his agent, Scott Boras, is calling the shots, they are making a farce of the best player in baseball.
Officials said that State Department investigators lacked the authority to offer the deals.
The growing numbers of foreign fighters in Afghanistan are more violent and extreme than their local allies.
Some say that Barack Obama has taken some literary license in portraying the time he spent in Manhattan.
A cache of theater-related documents, part of a gift to the New York Public Library, offers a revealing glance at Ms. Hepburn’s personality, profession and obsessions.
The top consumer product safety official asked Congress to reject legislation that would strengthen the agency.
From the perspective of the Bellevue/N.Y.U. Program for Survivors of Torture, which is seeing more patients than ever, torture seems like a growth industry.
Whoever is chosen will have to run both a thriving wealth management operation and a beaten-down bond business.
Some of the direst noises about our nation’s scientific prospects may be premature; students seem to be embracing challenging science courses.
The gunman who killed a man at a Queens playground on Sunday used a crude silencer made of a plastic bleach bottle wrapped in duct tape, the authorities said.
Joe Girardi, the former manager of the Florida Marlins, won three titles as a catcher for the Yankees.