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Normally understated Gov. Jon S. Corzine said he was “dismayed” by New York’s congestion pricing plan, and threatened to sue the city if it followed through with the surcharge.
Architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins have essentially made it their mission to outlaw aging and its consequences.
The three-week Kirov Ballet season that opened at City Center on Tuesday night looks on paper like a major course in the history of ballet classicism.
One person matters in the regulatory process more than anyone else. That would be the governor of New York.
President Robert G. Mugabe’s ruling party lost control of the nation’s Parliament. Will the presidency be next?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 2008, covering April 3, 2008.
Danity Kane
Various Artists
Rick Ross
Flo Rida
Jack Johnson
2008Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (born 1983)[†]
Hrvoje Ćustić was a Croatian footballer who played as a midfielder.
2008ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.[†]
ATA Airlines, Inc., formerly known as American Trans Air and commonly referred to as ATA, was an American low-cost and charter airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana. ATA operated scheduled passenger flights throughout the U.S. mainland and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Portugal as well as military and commercial charter flights around the world.
2008Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.[†]
Texas is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and has an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km2) and with over 31 million residents as of 2024, it is the second-largest state by area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as the independent Republic of Texas.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]