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Zaha Hadid, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, has been chosen to design the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
Three renovations in 12 years, and Michael Haverland, an architect, and Philip Galanes, a lawyer and novelist, are still together.
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced plans to help simplify the often bewildering process of enrolling children in prekindergarten and kindergarten classes in New York City.
The cause of the actor Heath Ledger’s death could take two weeks to determine, the New York City medical examiner’s office said.
As fears of an American recession ripple across the globe, analysts are wondering whether the great oil boom of the last five years is finally coming to an end.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 23, 2008, covering January 24, 2008.
Alicia Keys
Radiohead
Soundtrack
Mary J. Blige
Taylor Swift
2008Usha Narayanan, Burmese-born First Lady of India (born 1922)[†]
Usha Narayanan, born Tint Tint, was the First Lady of India from 1997 to 2002. She was married to K. R. Narayanan, the tenth President of India. Usha Narayanan was India's second foreign-born first lady after Janaki Venkataraman. She played a key role in women social welfare activities initiated by the presidency.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]