Without Health Care, One Burger From Ruin
By Jim Dwyer
Many hospital patients — well-educated, middle-class, home-owning, often insured — are driven into bankruptcy by medical bills.
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On this day
September 12, 2009
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Pushed From Late Night, Leno Is Set for Prime Time
By Bill Carter
Jay Leno, who will begin his 10 p.m. show on NBC on Monday, has gone from a late-night discard to the lynchpin of the network’s prime-time fortunes.
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U.S. Adds Tariffs on Chinese Tires
By Edmund L. Andrews
The tariff, which will start at 35 percent this month, is a victory for the United Steelworkers union, a crucial ally in President Obama’s health care overhaul.
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Lehman Had to Die So Global Finance Could Live
By Joe Nocera
The Lehman Brothers failure caused a panic that spurred Congress to approve the $700 billion bailout.
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Jury Deadlock Ends a Trial Over Merck’s Bone Drug
By Natasha Singer
Jurors sent the judge desperate hand-scrawled notes saying they were deadlocked over a verdict in the trial, which had been monitored as a bellwether for hundreds of other similar lawsuits against Merck.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 2009, covering September 12, 2009.
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Breakthrough
Colbie Caillat
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Awake
Skillet
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The Time Of Our Lives (EP)
Miley Cyrus
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Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
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Ellipse
Imogen Heap
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Notable Deaths
2009Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)[†]
Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, one of only seven people to have received all three awards.
2009Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1921)[†]
John Albert Kramer was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, and a pioneer promoter who helped drive the sport towards professionalism at the elite level. Kramer also ushered in the serve-and-volley era in tennis, a playing style with which he won three Grand Slam tournaments. He also led the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team to victory in the 1946 and 1947 Davis Cup finals.
2009Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (born 1910)[†]
Willy Ronis was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.
Historical Context for September 12, 2009
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]