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The merger of the William Morris and Endeavor agencies is a sign of the fissures produced by the digital revolution and a reaching out for emerging businesses.
A new international race has begun to develop cyberweapons and systems to protect against them.
The Obama administration dispatched high-level officials from several agencies to demonstrate that it was fully prepared to confront the outbreak.
An official’s claim that waterboarding yielded quick results was widely repeated, but has now been discredited.
A version of the iPhone that would work on Verizon’s network could be available as soon as next year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 22, 2009, covering April 28, 2009.
Rascal Flatts
Soundtrack
Jadakiss
Jason Aldean
Various Artists
2009Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina and actress (born 1939)[†]
Ekaterina Sergeyevna Maximova was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of the second part of the 20th century who was internationally recognised. She was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre for 30 years, a ballet pedagogue, winner of international ballet competitions, Laureate of many prestigious International and Russian awards, a professor in GITIS, Honorary professor at the Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, and an Executive Committee member of the Russian Center of Counseil International De La Danse, UNESCO.
2009Richard Pratt, Polish-Australian businessman (born 1934)[†]
Richard J. Pratt was an Australian businessman, chairman of the privately owned company Visy Industries, and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death, Pratt was Australia's fourth-richest person, with a personal fortune valued at A$5.48 billion.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]