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In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 26, 2008, covering March 31, 2008.
Rick Ross
Various Artists
Snoop Dogg
Jack Johnson
Alan Jackson
Fat Joe
Sara Bareilles
Janet
Erykah Badu
Miley Cyrus
2008Jules Dassin, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1911)[†]
Julius "Jules" Dassin was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued his career. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Directors' Guild.
2008Bill Keightley, American equipment manager (born 1926)[†]
William Bond Keightley was the equipment manager for the University of Kentucky men's basketball team, a position he held for 48 years. Known affectionately to most as "Mr. Wildcat," players referred to him as "Mr. Bill" or "Big Smooth."
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Anthony L. Ricco has been asked many questions and met much disapproval since taking up the defense of the three detectives who fired the first shots of a barrage that killed Sean Bell.
There is much to understand about garbage, and a reluctance, because of its very nature, to look too closely.
Senator John McCain has so far managed to enlist only a fraction of the heavyweight fund-raisers who helped drive President Bush’s two runs for the White House.
Since the blog The Huffington Post was launched, it has grown in ways that few people, except perhaps its co-founder, Arianna Huffington, expected.
A search for a missing Iraq veteran drives home a hard truth: wars do not always end when warriors return.
If the tough tactics have startled the outside world, the Communist Party for now seems more concerned with rallying domestic opinion.
After winning Sunday, Big East rivals Rutgers and Connecticut are set for a date in Tuesday night’s regional final.
The Kindle, an Amazon electronic book reader, may rob New Yorkers of a subway pastime: judging people’s covers by their books.
It has taken more than three decades to gain a second hearing of “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” which Leonard Bernstein wrote with the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.
The Web empowers both groups and individuals as a place where choice is not only an option, but an imperative.
A new wave of Silicon Valley companies is bringing live socializing into online social networking Web sites.
The Yankees are still spending their usual $200 million or so to return to the playoffs for a 14th consecutive season. But their focus now stretches beyond the immediate.