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For years WPIX offered New York’s only televised yule log -- now DVDs offer a dizzying array of flaming options, from stately baroque plumes to crispy, woodsy campfires.
Across the Middle East, young people are using religion to defy the status quo and challenge their governments.
In keeping with an unusual year, this column’s annual list of the economics books of the year is going to be a little unorthodox.
Even a bailout could not save three of the last remaining plants in the U.S. still making sport utility vehicles.
Middle- and upper-income families are traveling hundreds of miles to purchase a much wider selection of products at substantially lower prices than can be found in their hometowns.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 2008, covering December 24, 2008.
Taylor Swift
Britney Spears
Beyonce
Nickelback
Soundtrack
2008Ralph Harris, British journalist (born 1921)[†]
Ralph Harris was a British journalist and Reuters presidential correspondent. He was Reuters' official White House correspondent for the presidents from Truman until Reagan.
2008Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930)[†]
Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.
2008The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.[†]
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a Christian extremist organization operating in Central Africa and East Africa. Its origins were in the Ugandan insurgency (1986–1994) against Yoweri Museveni, during which Joseph Kony founded the LRA in 1987.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]