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Will Schwalbe, former editor in chief of Hyperion Books, is starting Cookstr, a new Web site, to showcase the recipes of both star chefs and lesser known cookbook writers.
Consumer cutbacks could lead to falling prices, suffocating investment and worsening joblessness for months.
Fox News and CNN have developed shows featuring Mike Huckabee and D. L. Hughley, respectively, to cash in on the new, younger viewers drawn to cable news â and comedy shows â this election year.
It is probably the second-most pressing question circulating among Washingtonâs media elite: Who will be the permanent host of NBCâs âMeet the Pressâ after the interim host, Tom Brokaw, steps down?
There are serious, smart plans to help struggling homeowners. And yet one plan is still missing. Where, oh, where is the governmentâs plan?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 29, 2008, covering November 1, 2008.
Kenny Chesney
T.I.
Ray LaMontagne
Metallica
Jennifer Hudson
2008Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer (born 1922)[â ]
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed submarines for studying ocean currents. In the Challenger Deep, he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the United States Navy were the first people to explore the deepest known part of the world's ocean, and the deepest known location on the surface of Earth's crust, the Mariana Trench, located in the western North Pacific Ocean.
2008Shakir Stewart, American record producer (born 1974)[â ]
Shakir Stewart, a native of Oakland, California, was an American record producer and record executive in a number of companies, the latest being Def Jam. At the time of his death he was the Senior Vice President of Island Def Jam Music Group and the Executive Vice President of Def Jam.
2008Yma Sumac, Peruvian-American soprano and actress (born 1922/1923)[â ]
Zoila Augusta Emperatriz ChĂĄvarri del Castillo, known as Yma Sumac, was a Peruvian singer. She won a Guinness World Record for the Greatest Range of Musical Value in 1956. "Ima sumaq" means "how beautiful" in Quechua. She has also been called Queen of Exotica and is considered a pioneer of world music. Her debut album, Voice of the Xtabay (1950), peaked at number one in the Billboard 200, selling a million copies in the United States, and its single, "Virgin of the Sun God ", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming an international success in the 1950s. Albums like Legend of the Sun Virgin (1952), Fuego del Ande (1959) and Mambo! (1955), were other successes.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]