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President Obama ordered a series of steps to streamline how terrorism threats are pursued, after a review of the thwarted bombing revealed shortcomings.
In March, the runway that handles half of the airport’s departures will close for four months.
Vacancy rates in New York are still rising and prices are still falling, and one expert says the market hasn’t hit bottom yet.
Revelations that the government stopped A.I.G. from releasing bailout details called in to question whether the information had to be disclosed under federal securities law.
Faced with the failure of the biggest recent gamble in television, NBC is shuffling its late-night deck again.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 2010, covering January 8, 2010.
Susan Boyle
Mary J. Blige
Andrea Bocelli
Alicia Keys
Taylor Swift
2010Art Clokey, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)[†]
Arthur Clokey was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor, he was pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1953 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the Howdy Doody Show and later got their own series The Adventures of Gumby, from which they became a familiar presence on American television. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live.
2010Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.[†]
The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda is a guerrilla and political movement fighting for the independence of the Angolan province of Cabinda. Formerly under Portuguese administration, with the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975, the territory became an exclave province of the newly independent Angola. The FLEC fights the Cabinda War in the region occupied by the former kingdoms of Kakongo, Loango, and N'Goyo.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]