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Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent on multiple deployments to Iraq under current plans.
In a surprising showdown with unusual ebb and flow, Kansas defeated North Carolina. The Jayhawks will play the title game Monday night against Memphis.
The route from the South Pacific to Broadway has passed directly through Connecticut ever since 1949 and the New Haven tryouts of the musical that became a classic.
The underlying theme of Jhumpa Lahiri’s sensitive new collection of stories is the fact that America is still a place where the rest of the world comes to reinvent itself.
The Army hosts a retreat to help soldiers heal emotional scars and work out problems with spouses.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 2008, covering April 6, 2008.
Danity Kane
Various Artists
Rick Ross
Flo Rida
Jack Johnson
2008The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.[†]
The 2008 Egyptian general strike was a strike which occurred on 6 April 2008, by Egyptian workers, primarily in the state-run textile industry, in response to low wages and rising food costs. Strikes are illegal in Egypt and authorities have been given orders to break demonstrations forcefully in the past. The strike took place just two days before key municipal elections.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]