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Hawaiian surfingâs public face has been supplanted with surfers competing not just for prize money but for territorial rights to an increasingly crowded sea.
Whether or not you care to see Jersey City as New Yorkâs sixth borough, you could write an interesting urban history centered on the area now designated as its Powerhouse Arts District.
Justine Henin is retiring at 25, and what rich twentysomething wouldnât want a little variety to spice up a life bounded by white lines from the time the racket was as long as the torso?
The endorsement could offer Senator Barack Obama help in his efforts to win over working-class white voters.
The Chinese government said that the earthquake had damaged nearly 400 dams, and the death toll estimate rose to 15,000.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 14, 2008, covering May 15, 2008.
Madonna
Mariah Carey
Leona Lewis
Lyfe Jennings
Def Leppard
2008Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1956)[â ]
Thomas Burns was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He is best known for his long association with Celtic, where he was a player, manager and coach.
2008Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (born 1919)[â ]
Alexander Mair Courage Jr. familiarly known as "Sandy" Courage, was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original Star Trek series.
2008Will Elder, American illustrator (born 1921)[â ]
William Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952.
2008California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.[â ]
Same-sex marriage has been legal in California since June 28, 2013. The State of California first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples from June 16, 2008 to November 5, 2008, a period of approximately 4 months, 2 weeks and 6 days, as a result of the Supreme Court of California finding in the case of In re Marriage Cases that barring same-sex couples from marriage violated the Constitution of California. The issuance of such licenses was halted from November 5, 2008 through June 27, 2013 due to the passage of Proposition 8âa state constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriages. The granting of same-sex marriages recommenced following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which restored the effect of a federal district court ruling that overturned Proposition 8 as unconstitutional.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]