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As advertisers cut online spending, start-up companies look for new ways to make money, like selling real or virtual goods or asking customers to buy subscriptions.
As job losses rise, the nation’s real estate disaster is shifting from subprime loans to prime loans issued to those with decent financial histories.
Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News host thriving in Washington, is called a liberal but has ties to the Palins.
The Linux programmers at the chip maker are at the center of its foray into netbooks and mobile phones.
Whoever replaces Justice David H. Souter will be a crucial vote on questions of executive authority, which has become the subject of a profound post-9/11 debate.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 20, 2009, covering May 25, 2009.
Chrisette Michele
Soundtrack
Ciara
Rascal Flatts
Bob Dylan
2009Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (born 1905)[†]
Haakon Steen Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the labour movement at an early age, and quickly rose in the party system. After actively working for the resistance movement and the exiled government during World War II, he was elected to the second-highest position in the party after the war, and his years in office were the most successful in the party's history.
2009North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.[†]
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like South Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]