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Home equity loans, once seen as the borrowing of last resort, have grown a thousandfold since banks began spending billions of dollars to advertise them.
If this trend were a movie it would be called “Honey, I Shrunk the Camper.”
Investigators are working on a theory that shots fired into the home of a Queens judge resulted from a dispute between neighbors.
The proposal is an outgrowth of a fatal crash last summer during which the driver’s cellphone was being used to send text messages.
From St. Louis to southern Ohio, an overland journey in quest of hidden cities built long before Columbus set sail.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 2008, covering August 15, 2008.
Sugarland
Miley Cyrus
Soundtrack
Kid Rock
Lil Wayne
2008Vic Toweel, South African-Australian boxer (born 1929)[†]
Victor "Vic" Anthony Toweel was a South African boxer and former Undisputed World Bantamweight Champion. He was the first South African to hold a world title.
2008Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (born 1917)[†]
Gerald Wexler was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s. He coined the term "rhythm and blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the time, including Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, Chris Connor, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dire Straits, Dusty Springfield and Bob Dylan. Wexler was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and in 2017 to the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]