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Despite the furor over the bonuses paid by A.I.G., executives at more than a dozen other firms that received government money stand to collect similar bonuses.
Takers of the popular online RealAge test are handing out valuable data to drug companies.
A former British banker’s home was vandalized, and French workers barricaded a factory manager in his office.
Officials said the plan, which will be unveiled Thursday, will subject hedge funds and traders of exotic financial products to governmental supervision.
The deal would repeal many of the mandatory minimum prison sentences now in place for lower-level drug felons.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 25, 2009, covering March 26, 2009.
Kelly Clarkson
The-Dream
U2
J. Holiday
Taylor Swift
2009Shane McConkey, Canadian skier and BASE jumper (born 1969)[†]
Shane McConkey was a professional skier and BASE jumper. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and eventually based himself in Olympic Valley, California. Due to an itinerant childhood, he never identified with a single place, but he was said to have come from Boulder, Colorado. It was from here that he started his professional skiing career. He did so after dropping out of the University of Colorado Boulder to pursue his dreams.
2009Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and composer (born 1926)[†]
Arne Joachim Bendiksen was a Norwegian singer, composer, and producer, described as "the father of pop music" in Norway. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]