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This past Broadway season served a smorgasbord of delights and tough decisions for the 805 voters for the Tony Awards on Sunday night.
Let the hyperventilating begin: the geek god is at long last coming to Comic-Con.
The efficient market hypothesis, which argues that the stock market is essentially rational, is taking serious hits, and one analyst says it is at the root of the financial crisis.
Big, as a business model at many of New York’s corporate law firms, seems bound for obsolescence.
The Mets may not have Jose Reyes or J. J. Putz — or a host of others, for that matter — but they were still better than the worst team in baseball, edging the Nationals in 10 innings.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 3, 2009, covering June 6, 2009.
Eminem
Green Day
Kenny Chesney
Dane Cook
Busta Rhymes
2009Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916)[†]
Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. Jean Dausset died on June 6, 2009, in Majorca, Spain, at the age of 92.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]