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Hanging over the debt ceiling talks has been the threat of the United States losing its AAA credit rating, but in corporate America, the top status long ago became an anachronism.
Federal officials are investigating whether a single processing plant is responsible for a salmonella outbreak that has killed one person and sickened 76 others.
Pericles Clergeau was shuttled through various Massachusetts agencies that were supposed to help him.
At the end of the 10-year period covered by the debt deal, the federal debt will be much larger than today.
Expected to hit his usual 40 home runs, Adam Dunn is compiling historically bad statistics in his first season with the White Sox.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 3, 2011, covering August 3, 2011.
Adele
Kidz Bop Kids
3 Doors Down
Beyonce
DJ Khaled
2011William Sleator, American author (born 1945)[†]
William Warner Sleator III, known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science, then trying to deal with the situation. The theme of family relationships, especially between siblings, is frequently intertwined with the science fiction plotline.
2011Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (born 1945)[†]
Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith was an American professional football defensive end and actor. Smith played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders, and Houston Oilers.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]