On this day
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One day before G.M. and Ford are expected to report bleak quarterly results, auto executives pleaded in Washington for more federal aid.
An architect and paleontologist built their country home into the slope of a mountain, complete with a guest yurt and view of a 30-foot waterfall in Saugerties, N.Y.
A production of Berlioz’s “Damnation de Faust” at the Metropolitan Opera introduces an unprecedented level of technological stagecraft to the house.
Just as China has attained supercharged growth that astounded much of the world, it appears to be slowing more sharply and more quickly than anyone anticipated.
Most of the nation’s retailers reported double-digit declines in October sales, underscoring how the financial turmoil has touched all consumers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 5, 2008, covering November 7, 2008.
AC/DC
Soundtrack
T.I.
Kenny Chesney
Metallica
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]