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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[â ]
2007Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (born 1919)[â ]
Kenneth Samuel Kleinknecht worked for the United States National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics as an engineer and continued at NASA to become a manager of the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo CSM, Skylab, Shuttle, and Spacelab. After retiring from NASA, he worked for Lockheed Martin for 9 years.
2007Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (born 1919)[â ]
Ian Douglas Smith was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979. He was the country's first leader to be born and raised in Rhodesia, and led the predominantly white government that unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in November 1965 in opposition to their demands for the implementation of majority rule as a condition for independence. His 15 years in power were defined by the country's international isolation and involvement in the Rhodesian Bush War, which pitted the Rhodesian Security Forces against the Soviet and Chinese-funded military wings of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU).
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We salute the great Alex Rodriguez for his powerbrokerâs enlistment of a virtual league of American business savants in pursuit of the capitalist dream with a self-serving spin.
The success of American firms overseas may help prevent the economy from slipping into a recession.
Whatâs missing from the eight Broadway shows still running is the very thing that promised to make this season distinct: a strong new drama.
An analystâs downgrading of Citigroup to âsellâ hit a raw nerve among investors and sent the Dow tumbling more than 218 points.
Amway, the door-to-door peddler of vitamins and soap, is pouring millions of dollars into a new online store called Fanista, which will initially sell DVDs and CDs.
If itâs live performance you want during the Broadway strike, hope springs eternal. But how to spend your ticket money?
âI donât want this to be about me being a celebrity, about me getting my name in the paper,â said James J. Claffey Jr., the man who represents striking Broadway stagehands.
New York City is acquiring South Brother Island, the last East River island of any significant size to remain in private hands.
Iraqis are beginning to reclaim their lost lives five months after extra U.S. troops arrived, but the depth of the changes remains open to question.
The physician Oliver Sacks's latest book focuses on people afflicted with strange musical disorders or powers â âmusical misalignmentsâ that affect their professional and daily lives.
The average weekly pretax pay for people who worked at investment banks and brokerage houses in Manhattan was $16,918 in the first three months of this year.
Over the next three months fans of the hit show âLostâ can go to ABC.com to view weekly episodes of âLost: Missing Pieces,â a series of new two- to three-minute shorts.