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In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]
2009Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish-English screenwriter (born 1932)[†]
Troy Kennedy Martin was a Scottish-born film and television screenwriter. He created the long-running BBC TV police series Z-Cars (1962–1978), and the award-winning 1985 anti-nuclear drama Edge of Darkness. He also wrote the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job (1969). His last film was Ferrari (2023), which was posthumously released.
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The recession is coming home for administrators, teachers and students in New York City’s public schools.
Devices like iPhones and netbook PCs that can help the speech-impaired are not covered by Medicare or insurers.
New York City’s health commissioner announced that he would seek to ban smoking at public parks and beaches as part of a plan to further curb smoking rates.
Two months after the Pakistani Army gained control of the Swat Valley, bodies have been dumped on the streets in what rights advocates and residents say is the work of the military.
With the service industry making up 70 percent of Japan’s economy, economists say the service sector must become more productive.
Even industry leaders agree that reform is necessary, but they seemed unhappy with the president’s stern lecture.
While union leaders hail a move as enforcing trade laws, President Obama is also having to deal with pressures from China and corporate America.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, told Congress that success would also require much more time, a position challenged by a Democrat.
Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. economy was probably growing now, but it would not be sufficient to prevent the unemployment rate from rising.
There is evidence that both the Israeli Army and Palestinian militants committed war crimes, the U.N. said.
The achievement of Jane Campion’s learned and ravishing new film is to trace the comminglings and collisions of poetic creation and amatory passion.
Over 17 years, Owen Burdick built up Trinity Church into a major force on the New York classical music scene. Then one winter day, three weeks before a major concert, he was suddenly gone.