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The takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reinforced concerns about troubles of the American economy and highlighted its significant reliance on foreign investors, particularly in Asia.
In order for their case against the family of a U.S. victim of terrorism in Israel to be re-examined, Palestinians must post a bond for the amount of the initial judgment, a judge said.
The surge in elevator violations in the city’s public housing projects in the past two years began after the city began double-checking the work of Housing Authority elevator inspectors.
A federal agency is opposing requirements for increased fireproofing and an extra stairwell in tall office buildings.
An elite undergraduate program of the City University of New York is being taught for the first time this fall in a majestic four-story brownstone on the Upper West Side.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 3, 2008, covering September 8, 2008.
Jonas Brothers
Kid Rock
Staind
Soundtrack
Ice Cube
2008Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (born 1927)[†]
Ralph Summers Plaisted was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on April 19, 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]