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The yearlong moratorium on new fast food restaurants in Los Angeles raises questions about when eating stops being a personal choice and becomes a public health concern.
A rule that made it harder to short some financial stocks expired as the Securities and Exchange Commission considered whether to tighten the rules on short selling.
Three people have been arrested and charged with knowingly exploiting a software glitch that allowed vending machines on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad to dispense free tickets.
With health insurance out of reach for many, obtaining coverage is factoring into the decision for more couples.
Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, owns the Waverly Inn and just bought the Monkey Bar, which makes his second career as a restaurateur look more serious.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 2008, covering August 13, 2008.
Sugarland
Miley Cyrus
Soundtrack
Kid Rock
Lil Wayne
2008Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (born 1904)[â ]
Henri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
2008Bill Gwatney, American politician (born 1959)[â ]
William Alan Gwatney was an American politician who served as the State Chair of the Democratic Party of Arkansas. He had previously served as a State Senator for ten years and as the financial chair of Mike Beebe's campaign for Governor of Arkansas in 2006. Gwatney was selected as a superdelegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, but was assassinated before the convention.
2008Jack Weil, American businessman (born 1901)[â ]
Jack Arnold Weil was the founder and CEO of the Denver-based Western clothing manufacturer Rockmount Ranch Wear and was believed to be the oldest working CEO in the United States.
2008Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.[â ]
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It is regarded as the first European war of the 21st century.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]