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A key Senate Democrat said that he is against sending more U.S. combat troops to Afghanistan until the training and equipping of Afghan security forces can be expanded.
A business built on fantasy and aspiration is in trouble, as consumers seem unwilling to spend at any price level.
Clinical trials are showing that the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine protects with one dose instead of two, so the supplies being made will go twice as far.
When the financial crisis hit, some of Wall Street’s prophets warned that individual investors would be lost for years, but some of the money that fled stocks for safe harbors last year is beginning to return.
Two German ships are poised to complete, for the first time, a commercial shipment transit from Asia to Europe over the waters of the Arctic north of Russia.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 2009, covering September 11, 2009.
Colbie Caillat
Skillet
Miley Cyrus
Kings of Leon
Imogen Heap
2009Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (born 1949)[†]
James Dennis Carroll was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.
2009Pierre Cossette, Canadian producer and manager (born 1923)[†]
Pierre Maurice Joseph Cossette was a television executive producer and Broadway producer. Cossette produced the first television broadcast of the Grammy Awards in 1971. He was one of the founders of Dunhill Records.
2009Larry Gelbart, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)[†]
Larry Simon Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the television series M*A*S*H, and as co-writer of the Broadway musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and City of Angels.
2009Yoshito Usui, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1958)[†]
Yoshito Usui was a Japanese manga artist known for the popular Crayon Shin-chan series. He was born in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]