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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has started to chip away at nepotism and displayed a renewed vigor in launching projects not seen in decades.
The New York Public Library said yesterday that it had signed an agreement to sell the property and the building housing its Donnell branch in Midtown to Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. for $59 million.
A proposal in Congress to put a price tag on greenhouse-gas emissions could overturn the economics of energy.
Call it Phase 3 of the greening of corporate America. Companies are looking at their supply chain as the next frontier for combating climate change.
Wall Street bonuses are expected to be flat to down 15 percent, making them the latest victim of the subprime mortgage collapse and the tight credit market.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 7, 2007, covering November 7, 2007.
Carrie Underwood
Robert Plant / Alison Krauss
Gary Allan
Serj Tankian
Josh Groban
2007Earl Dodge, American activist and politician (born 1932)[†]
Earl Farwell Dodge Jr. was an American politician who served as the Prohibition Party's chairman and presidential candidate from the 1984 to 2000 presidential elections and later ran with the nomination of his own faction during the 2004 presidential election.
2007George W. George, American screenwriter and producer (born 1920)[†]
George Warren George was an American theater, Broadway and film producer. His credits included the film My Dinner with Andre (1981) and several hit Broadway productions.
2007The Jokela school shooting in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland, takes place, resulting in the death of nine people.[†]
The Jokela school shooting, also known as the Jokela High School massacre, occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in the town of Jokela, Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one before shooting himself in the head; twelve others were also injured by flying glass or by spraining their ankles during the ensuing chaos. Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]