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The architectural designer Eric Clough embedded clues into a Fifth Avenue apartment, leading the family who lived there on a scavenger hunt through the rooms of their home.
Labor leaders say Jason Furman, Barack Obama’s new economic policy director, focuses too much on corporate America and not enough on workers.
It was not exactly cold out on Wednesday, but New York was cooler than it was on Monday or Tuesday.
Sprint’s new Samsung Instinct is an iPhone wannabe, but it has its own personality.
As more countries move to ban or restrict hate speech, some legal scholars say the U.S. should reconsider the broad scope of First Amendment protection.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 11, 2008, covering June 12, 2008.
Usher
Soundtrack
3 Doors Down
Bun-B
Leona Lewis
2008Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (born 1951)[†]
Miroslav Dvořák was a Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman. He played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1982 to 1985. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1969 to 1989, was mainly spent with HC České Budějovice in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. Internationally Dvořák played for the Czechoslovak national team at several Ice Hockey World Championships, winning gold medals in 1976 and 1977, along with six silver medals, and a silver medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
2008Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1932)[†]
Derek Robert Tapscott was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a forward. Tapscott played for Barry Town, Arsenal, Cardiff City, Newport County, Cinderford Town, Haverfordwest County and Carmarthen Town. He also featured for the Welsh national team. Tapscott is Cardiff City's sixth highest goalscorer of all time.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]