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In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]
2008Tony Hillerman, American journalist, author, and educator (born 1925)[â ]
Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his works have been adapted for film and television, including the AMC series Dark Winds.
2008Delmar Watson, American actor and photographer (born 1926)[â ]
David Delmar Watson was an American child actor and news photographer.
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The Nittany Lions turned the gameâs first turnover into their only touchdown and went on to beat the Buckeyes.
Carlos Ruiz drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth with a ball that traveled only about 40 feet.
The CMJ Music Marathon, the annual showcase of independent music that concluded on Saturday night, is still vibrant despite changing times.
For the last few months, local stations, and to some degree networks, have been frolicking in money spent by the presidential campaigns.
As the second season of âMad Menâ concluded on Sunday night, the ad men of Sterling Cooper were squeezed between the threat of nuclear annihilation from above and social insurrection roiling below.
Leonard Bernsteinâs âMass,â dismissed by critics when it premiered in 1971, was brought back to life by a performance at the United Palace Theater conducted by Marin Alsop.
Major oil-producing countries had seemed to be insulated from the crisis shaking the foundations of the international financial system.
The small exhibition of works by Mark Rothko and the 19th-century folk artist Ammi Phillips at the American Folk Art Museum reveals the artistsâ parallel ways of dealing with surface, color and light.
The White House has backed away from ground raids into Pakistan after furious complaints from its government, relying instead on strikes by drones.
Reminders of the Philliesâ lone World Series championship in Citizens Bank Park include Greg Luzinski, a four-time All-Star, and his barbecue stand.
An article last Sunday about the Laurita Winery in New Egypt, N.J., misstated the given name of one of its owners. He is Raymond F. Shea, not Randy.
An article last Sunday about a fungal disease afflicting maple trees in Westchester and Connecticut included an arboristâs misidentification of a disease that affects oak trees. The oak-tree disease is Taphrina caerulescens, or oak leaf blister, not Taphrina deformans, or peach leaf curl.