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The Jetsâ loss to the 49ers pushed them into a tie with Miami and New England for first place in the American Football Conference East.
The first recession in luxury-goods sales in nearly 20 years has forced companies like Bulgari to economize.
Don Doaneâs friends and fellow bowlers gathered to honor the man who died moments after bowling his first perfect game.
The economic downturn has decimated the market for recycled materials, leaving more headed for landfills.
A comprehensive bailout could cost as much as $125 billion, and even the auto companies themselves are hard pressed to dispute that figure.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 3, 2008, covering December 8, 2008.
Beyonce
Nickelback
David Cook
Taylor Swift
Il Divo
2008Oliver Postgate, English voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)[â ]
Richard Oliver Postgate was an English animator, puppeteer, and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Bagpuss, Pingwings, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Pogles' Wood, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with collaborator, artist and puppet maker Peter Firmin. The programmes were originally broadcast by the BBC from the 1950s to the 1980s. In a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.
2008Robert Prosky, American actor (born 1930)[â ]
Robert Prosky was an American actor. He became a well-known supporting actor in the 1980s with his roles in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987).
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]