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Factories and services are faltering, the currency is wilting and a government default seems possible, posing a real threat to other European economies.
As upscale food magazines like Gourmet and Food & Wine try to survive the shaky economy, it is out with the truffles, in with the button mushrooms.
While Hollywood and network studios are struggling to find the future, the creators of the show “South Park” have created a visionary broadcasting model.
As personal computer sales stagnate, Microsoft and its longtime partner, Intel, are looking to diversify into sophisticated artificial intelligence products.
The unraveling economy is making less expensive state colleges more appealing, even as they face cuts.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 2009, covering March 2, 2009.
Taylor Swift
Robert Plant / Alison Krauss
India.Arie
The Fray
Lily Allen
2009João Bernardo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1939)[†]
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was a Bissau-Guinean politician and military officer who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 until his assassination in 2009.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]