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2008
Bill Belew (b.1931), costume king, died in Palm Springs, Ca. He created the outfits worn by Elvis Presley and other pop stars.
2008
Australians battled both fires and some of the worst flooding in decades that stranded residents in several communities after days of intense summer heat and storms.
2008
Britain’s PM Gordon Brown announced plans for a new national screening program to combat some of the country's biggest killer diseases.
2008
Jerry Fitch, a Mississippi businessman, must pay more than 750,000 dollars in damages to the man whose wife he wooed away, after the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the case.
2008
The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (www.inequality.com) announced the launch of its new quarterly publication, Pathways, an online and hardcopy magazine dedicated to examining poverty and inequality in the United States.
2008
Starbucks ousted CEO Jim McDonald and Howard Schultz, current Chairman and former CEO (1987-2000), took over. Starbucks faced added competition as McDonald’s planned to install coffee bars selling espresso.
2008
In Alabama Lam Luong (37), a shrimp fisherman and drug addict, threw his 4 young children into the Intracoastal Waterway from the Dauphin Island bridge. He initially reported the children missing and then confessed.
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