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After former President Bill Clinton won the freedom of two American journalists, officials were busily calculating whether the psychology in Pyongyang had changed.
With the explosion of digital data, statisticians can earn $125,000 in their first year after getting a doctorate.
Lauren Luke’s homegrown cosmetics tutorials on YouTube have made her an unexpected star.
State governments are turning to golf courses, long seen as water guzzlers, for tips on conservation.
Michael Jackson's death reopens a debate on competing approaches to intervention for helping those who struggle with drug addiction.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 2009, covering August 6, 2009.
Demi Lovato
Daughtry
Maxwell
Various Artists
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2009Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (born 1909)[†]
Riccardo Cassin was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure in the history of rock climbing, alpine climbing and big wall climbing.
2009Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)[†]
Willy DeVille was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, DeVille created songs rooted in traditional American musical styles. He worked with collaborators from across the spectrum of contemporary music, including Jack Nitzsche, Doc Pomus, Dr. John, Mark Knopfler, Allen Toussaint, and Eddie Bo. Latin rhythms, blues riffs, doo-wop, Cajun music, strains of French cabaret, and echoes of early-1960s uptown soul can be heard in DeVille's work.
2009John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)[†]
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker and producer. He is best known for writing, producing, and directing such films as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck, and writing Pretty in Pink and Home Alone.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]