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Rebels are facing a perhaps fatal obstacle: the need to forge a substitute to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in a state that he embodied.
A chef is determined to use his new restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico, to help revitalize not only the city’s food scene, but also the city itself.
At 40 pounds, Nathan Myhrvold’s “Modernist Cuisine” is a remarkable object, but it is not for most home cooks.
Hollywood players and institutions were said to be scrambling to distance themselves from projects in which Saadi el-Qaddafi might be financially involved.
Mary L. Schapiro is facing Congressional questioning about a former general counsel who weighed in on the Bernard L. Madoff case even though he had a financial interest in it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 2011, covering March 9, 2011.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Mumford & Sons
Various Artists
Justin Bieber
2011David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (born 1929)[†]
David Salzer Broder was an American journalist, writing for The Washington Post for over 40 years. He was also an author, television news show pundit, and university lecturer.
2011Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.[†]
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, aggregating more spaceflights than any other spacecraft as of December 2024. The Space Shuttle launch vehicle had three main components: the Space Shuttle orbiter, a single-use central fuel tank, and two reusable solid rocket boosters. Nearly 25,000 heat-resistant tiles cover the orbiter to protect it from high temperatures on re-entry.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]