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Few budget analysts consider New York’s fiscal situation an emergency, but they do worry that global economic gloom could cause the state’s outlook to worsen considerably.
As the 2008 Beijing Olympics unfold, China wants to turn its reputation for performance enhancing drug use from the 1990s into a distant memory.
It was a thrilling afternoon in the Bronx, as the Yankees came back to win thanks to an offensive explosion in the eighth and some defensive blunders by the Angels.
The mounting toll inflicted by insurgents has refocused the attention of America’s military commanders.
In its escalating dysfunction Belgium demonstrates the inextricable link between culture and nationhood.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 2008, covering August 4, 2008.
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Lil Wayne
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Coldplay
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2008Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (born 1985)[†]
Craig Jones was an English motorcycle racer. He grew up in the town of Northwich in Cheshire and attended Charles Darwin Primary School, and later Hartford High School. He died in 2008, shortly after a racing accident when he fell and was struck by another motorcycle.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]