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Emmanuelle Riva, revered for her role in âHiroshima Mon Amour,â is getting prizes for her work in Michael Hanekeâs âAmour,â but says she never wanted to be a star.
Lobbying in the nationâs capital and overseas is likely to increase as governments worldwide revisit legislation on issues like consumer privacy and online security.
The companies making the narcotic painkillers OxyContin and Opana have introduced tamper-resistant pills, hoping to slow adoption of the drugsâ generic versions.
Economists forecast that the Congressional deal would reduce economic growth by as much as 1 percent in the first quarter of 2013.
In four years, the country has gone from the European Unionâs worst economic disaster zone to a model of what is being hailed as the healing properties of deep budget cuts.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 2013, covering January 2, 2013.
Taylor Swift
T.I.
Bruno Mars
One Direction
Michael Buble
2013Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (born 1920)[â ]
Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980, she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in 1991.
2013Teresa ToraĆska, Polish journalist and author (born 1944)[â ]
Teresa SĆawomira ToraĆska was a Polish journalist and writer. She was perhaps best known for her award winning monograph, Oni.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]