Street-Level High-Wire Man
Philippe Petit, who once walked between the World Trade Center towers on a high wire, will showcase some of his other skills in the one-man show “Wireless!”
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Philippe Petit, who once walked between the World Trade Center towers on a high wire, will showcase some of his other skills in the one-man show “Wireless!”
Some presidential candidates are shifting from the hawkish consensus on national security that has dominated Republican foreign policy for a decade.
Senator Charles E. Schumer inserted into a bill a provision that appears aimed at helping banks address a costly problem with a patented system for processing digital copies of checks.
Both parties have reason to compromise on the debt talks under way as the economy shows signs of stumbling.
A trade group’s report says more small companies plan to shrink their work forces than expand them in the coming months.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 15, 2011, covering June 15, 2011.
Lady Gaga
Adele
Death Cab for Cutie
Eddie Vedder
My Morning Jacket
2011Bill Haast, American herpetologist and academic (born 1910)[†]
Bill Haast was the owner and operator, from 1947 until 1984, of the Miami Serpentarium, a tourist attraction south of Miami, Florida, where he entertained customers by performing live venom extraction from snakes. After closing the Serpentarium, he opened the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, a facility in Punta Gorda, Florida that produced snake venom for medical and research use. Haast extracted venom from venomous snakes from the time he was a boy.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]