Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
An alliance of companies led by Google plans to roll out a common set of standards to allow developers to write programs for Google’s Orkut and other social networking Web sites.
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An alliance of companies led by Google plans to roll out a common set of standards to allow developers to write programs for Google’s Orkut and other social networking Web sites.
The Kaufmann House, set into the California desert, enjoyed a restoration after years of neglect and is to be auctioned in May.
Major League Baseball’s procedures may allow players time to mask their use of performance-enhancing drugs.
As Merrill Lynch begins to search for its next chief executive, the company named Alberto Cribiore as its nonexecutive chairman and leader of its search committee.
Adam Bock’s new play provides a nifty hour and change of light comedy that bleeds into dark finger-wagging.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 31, 2007, covering October 31, 2007.
Bruce Springsteen
Kid Rock
Rascal Flatts
Josh Groban
Jimmy Eat World

2007Erdal İnönü, Turkish physicist and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1926)[†]
Erdal İnönü was a Turkish theoretical physicist and politician who served as the interim prime minister of Turkey between 16 May and 25 June 1993. He also served as the deputy prime minister of Turkey from 1991 to 1993 and as the minister of foreign affairs from March to October 1995. He served as the leader of the Social Democracy Party (SODEP) from 1983 to 1985 and later the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) from 1986 to 1993. He was the son of the second president of Turkey, İsmet İnönü.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]