In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she described the life of husband, Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage.

In 2009 she presented the Leslie Oliver Oration at Queen's Hospital.

In April 2009 it was revealed that Eileen Grimshaw's father, Colin had slept with Eileen's old classmate, Paula Carp while she was still at school, and that Paula's daughter, Julie was in fact also Colin's daughter.

On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2009.

On February 2, 2009, she returned to the role of Alexx Woods for a guest appearance in the episode " Smoke Gets In Your CSI's ".

On December 5, 2009, she participated in the Teletón in Mexico, to help raise funds to treat cancer and children rehabilitation.

On 7 January 2009 CNN Travel broadcasted a segment called " MyCity_MyLife " featuring Nina Persson taking the camera to some of the sites in Malmö that she enjoys.

* The Boston Globe reported on October 5, 2009, that the newly announced Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was asked if she had expected to win the honor.

In March 2009 she praised President Barack Obama for reversing the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was " terribly saddened ...

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

Biden was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008 ; on 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama and Biden on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington.

When she was made a life peer in 2009, they became one of the few couples to both hold titles in their own right.

In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranians taking part in post-election protests by saying " Where is My Vote?

Also in 2009, she appeared in the film Broken Embraces as Lena.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 2009, Paula's manager David Sonenberg told the newspaper that, " Very sadly, it does not appear that she ’ s going to be back on ‘ Idol ’.

On August 4, 2009, after numerous contract negotiations, Abdul confirmed that she would not be returning to Idol for its ninth season.

In addition to helping develop TCP / IP and the Domain Name System ( DNS ), ISI contributed to the Net by editing the " Request for Comments " ( RFC ) series, the written record of the emerging network's technical structure and operation, from 1977 through 2009.

Jeepster contributed 6 songs to the triple-platinum-selling Polydor Records Snow Patrol compilation ' Up To Now ' in 2009.

* China ( U. S. $ 4. 98 trillion ) went from being the sixth largest to the third largest economy, and in 2009 contributed to 8. 6 % of the world's economy, up from 3. 3 % in 1999 by nominal price or a rise from 6. 9 % to 12. 6 % adjusted for purchasing power.

Goodall in 2009 with Lou Perrotti, who contributed to her book, Hope for Animals and Their World.

In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a series of reminiscences on his upbringing in Canada for a charity album titled Dan Aykroyd's Canada.

A 2009 book Pioneers of Industrial Organization traces the development of the field from Adam Smith to recent times and includes dozens of short biographies of major figures in Europe and North America who contributed to the growth and development of the discipline.

From 2006 to 2009 he played in punk band Flipper, also recording an album, and in 2011 contributed bass and accordion to the song " I Should Have Known ", from the Foo Fighters ' record Wasting Light.

That foundation, which offered the Levys staff support and contributed towards a cash reward for information about Chandra's disappearance, was merged into the Laci & Conner Search and Rescue Fund in 2009 ; Susan Levy had previously participated in the efforts to find Laci Peterson, another missing woman from Modesto.

* The Bleeding Edge ( 2009 )-Edited as well as contributed

One 2009 study has found that carbohydrate deficit after exercise, but not energy deficit, contributed to insulin sensitivity increase.

Agriculture contributed 31. 5 percent of the GDP in 2009, while commerce and services accounted for 44. 9 percent.

These exports contributed 28. 8 % to GDP in 2009.

In 2009 the Barbados Defence Force contributed to USSOUTHCOM-maneuver Fuerzas Commando 2009 in Brazil.

Closing up 2009, Wheaton published " Happiest Days of Our Lives ", to which his son, Ryan, contributed by writing the afterword.

"</ Blockquote > Lumley also contributed her writing for the book We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples, released in October 2009 with profits going in support of Survival.

The actor also narrated at least one TV documentary about The Dambusters and contributed forewords to many books on the subject, including The Dam Busters by Jonathan Falconer ( 2003 ), Filming The Dam Busters by Jonathan Falconer ( 2005 ) and most recently Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis by Iain Murray ( 2009 ).

James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire contributed an original song, " The Girl from Tiger Bay ", to Shirley Bassey's 2009 studio album, The Performance.

In 2009, he contributed a cover of LFO's song " LFO " to the Warp20 ( Recreated ) compilation.

In 2009, Yo La Tengo contributed to Stroke-Songs For Chris Knox, a tribute album for New Zealand rock and roll musician Chris Knox who suffered a stroke in June 2009.

Also in 2009, Yo La Tengo contributed a cover of the song " Gentle Hour " to the AIDS benefit album, Dark Was the Night, produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Butler contributed the title track as well as " Syrup & Honey " which was used in a worldwide Nivea advertisement campaign, produced " Please Stay " for " Telstar-The Movie " and co wrote " Smoke Without Fire ", to be used in the 2009 film, An Education.

In a 2009 paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, Karen Starko proposed that aspirin poisoning had contributed substantially to the fatalities.

Picciotto also co-produced and contributed guitar on Vic Chesnutt's most recent album, At The Cut, for Constellation Records and performed live with Chesnutt on the Fall / Winter 2009 North American Tour.