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Barack Obama was said to be set to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing, which experts said would require an extensive effort.
Paul A. Offit sees a fiery debate on autism as being hijacked by vaccine opponents peddling false hope.
“Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas,” details how surprising discoveries are illuminating the sea, its immense impact on the planet and its habitability.
The genetics of romance suggest that love potions, or love vaccines, could be on the horizon.
Well aware of the limits of oil, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are aggressively pouring billions of dollars into green technologies.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 7, 2009, covering January 13, 2009.
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Britney Spears
Nickelback
Kanye West
2009Dai Llewellyn, Welsh socialite and politician (born 1946)[†]
Sir David St Vincent "Dai" Llewellyn, 4th Baronet, was a Welsh socialite.
2009Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)[†]
Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an Irish-American actor of film, television, and theatre. Born in New York City to Irish parents, he was raised in Ireland and England. He began his career in England during the 1950s and became well known for the titular role of secret agent John Drake in the ITC espionage programme Danger Man (1960–1968). He then created and produced the surrealistic ITV series The Prisoner (1967–1968), in which he starred as former British intelligence agent Number Six.
2009Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese poet, composer, and producer (born 1925)[†]
Mansour Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet, philosopher, thinker and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers, and the brother-in-law of the singer Fairuz.
2009W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (born 1926)[†]
William De Witt Snodgrass was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
2009Nancy Bird Walton, Australian pilot (born 1915)[†]
Nancy Bird Walton, was a pioneering Australian aviator, known as "The Angel of the Outback", and the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]