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Michael J. Sandel’s “Justice,” long one of the most popular classes at Harvard, will now be available for free online and on public television.
The orchestra performed several strong concerts this week amid continuing uncertainty about its leadership and financial health.
Embedded within “FlashForward,” the ABC meditation about fate that had its premiere on Thursday, was a hopeful sentiment about the show’s own future.
Talk of a possible ban from China has made other nations put an urgent focus on mining so-called rare earths.
Critics say Yaz and Yasmin, the top-selling birth control line in the U.S., pose greater health risks to women.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 2009, covering September 26, 2009.
Jay-Z
Miley Cyrus
Whitney Houston
Raekwon
Brooks & Dunn
2009Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.[†]
Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second-most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, causing $1.15 billion in damages and 665 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 956 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion. Ketsana was the sixteenth tropical storm, and the eighth typhoon of the season. It was the most devastating tropical cyclone to hit Manila, surpassing Typhoon Patsy (Yoling) in 1970.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]