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Wind energy is coming under scrutiny, not just from hostile neighbors but from energy experts who question its reliability as a source of power.
The Cowboys (10-1) made the Jets’ offense look as bad as it has all season by exposing the inexperience of Kellen Clemens and exploiting the absence of Laveranues Coles.
Many Japanese investors are quitting American investments, in a move that is altering global capital flows and helping to weaken the dollar.
The business interests of megachurches include aviation subsidiaries and investment partnerships.
Some of Wall Street’s safest institutions — or those that hoped to be perceived as safe — turned out not to be, while some perceived as risky are so far sailing through.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 21, 2007, covering November 23, 2007.
Jay-Z
Eagles
Garth Brooks
Chris Brown
Carrie Underwood
2007Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (born 1979)[†]
Joseph Darley Kennedy was an American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched from 2001 to 2007 for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Toronto Blue Jays.
2007Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (born 1971)[†]
Óscar Carmelo Sánchez Zambrana was a Bolivian footballer who played for the Bolivia national football team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in the United States. Born in Cochabamba, he was capped 78 times by Bolivia and scored 6 goals, between 1994 and 2006. He was the captain of the national team several times. He made his debut for the national side on April 20, 1994, in a friendly match in Bucharest against Romania.
2007Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (born 1935)[†]
Robert Lee Vesco was an American criminal financier. After several years of risky investments and dubious credit dealings, Vesco was alleged to have committed securities fraud. He immediately fled the ensuing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation by living in a number of Central American and Caribbean countries.
2007Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union player (born 1936)[†]
Patrick Timothy Walsh was a New Zealand rugby union player and selector. He played 13 Tests and 14 other games for the All Blacks from 1955 to 1964. He also played for New Zealand Māori in 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959 1961, captaining the side on its 1958 tour to Australia, against the British Lions in 1959 and against the French in 1961. He was an All Black selector from 1969 to 1971.
2007MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.[†]
MS Explorer or MV Explorer was a Liberian-registered cruise ship, the first vessel of that kind used specifically to sail the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean. She was the first cruise ship to sink there, after striking an iceberg on 23 November 2007. All passengers and crew were rescued.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]