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Plug and play — a popular concept that allows buyers of computers and electronic games to avoid frustrating assembly — is proving hard to pull off for Boeing.
Theater groups have been among the loudest protesters of cuts announced by Arts Council England, the government-financed body that doles out subsidies to the arts.
The Knicks have won three in a row for the first time in a year, all without starting point guard Stephon Marbury, who is sidelined by a sore left ankle.
The Fed chairman has said that he would back tax cuts or spending measures, so long as they are temporary.
Following results of recent clinical trials on popular cholesterol drugs, cardiologists are questioning whether a patient’s cholesterol should be all that matters.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 16, 2008, covering January 17, 2008.
Radiohead
Alicia Keys
Mary J. Blige
Various Artists
Taylor Swift
2008Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (born 1943)[†]
Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since.
2008Ernie Holmes, American football player, wrestler, and actor (born 1948)[†]
Earnest Lee Holmes was an American professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons, primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nicknamed "Fats", he was selected by the Steelers in the eighth round of the 1971 NFL draft and won two Super Bowl titles with the team. He spent all but one season of his career in Pittsburgh, retiring in 1978 after a stint with the New England Patriots.
2008British Airways Flight 38 crashes short of the runway at Heathrow Airport, injuring 47.[†]
British Airways Flight 38 was a scheduled international passenger flight operating the flight from Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, to Heathrow Airport in London, United Kingdom, an 8,100-kilometre trip. On 17 January 2008, the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, which crash-landed short of the runway at Heathrow, touched down hard on the grass undershoot, breaking off the landing gear and skidding across the turf infield before sliding to the right of the threshold, 330 metres from its initial impact point. Of the 152 people on board, no fatalities resulted, but 47 people were injured, 1 of them seriously. The extensively crippled aircraft, which sustained heavy damage to both engines, both wing roots, wing-to-body fairing, flaps, right-hand horizontal stabilizer's leading edge, fuel tanks as well as the lower fuselage belly from the ground slide, was written off as a result, becoming the first hull loss of a Boeing 777.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]