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Behavior detection officers observe and talk to passengers for signs of trouble. Such officers, some with explosive-sniffing dogs, already routinely survey checkpoint lines.
In a show of international cooperation that involved Russia and Iraq, Syria was persuaded to stop chemical bomb preparation. But the United States and Europe are not resting easy.
Years of wrangling over flawed mortgages and foreclosures will come to an end for the 10 banks who settled with the federal government.
Less stringent capital and liquidity requirements for banks for the worldâs banks will help bolster the global economic recovery, which is needed most right now.
Much of Japanâs post-Fukushima cleanup is primitive, slapdash and bereft of the cleanup methods lauded by scientists as effective in removing radioactive cesium.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 2013, covering January 8, 2013.
Taylor Swift
T.I.
Bruno Mars
One Direction
Michael Buble
2013Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (born 1927)[â ]
Kenojuak Ashevak, was a Canadian Inuk artist. She was born on October 3, 1927 at Camp Kerrasak on southern Baffin Island, and died on January 8, 2013 in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Known primarily for her drawings as a graphic artist, she had a diverse artistic experience, making sculpture and engraving and working with textiles and also on stained glass. She is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art and one of Canada's preeminent artists and cultural icons.
2013Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (born 1920)[â ]
Jeanne Sobelson Manford was an American schoolteacher and activist. She co-founded the support group organization, PFLAG, for which she was awarded the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal.
2013Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (born 1930)[â ]
Alasdair David Gordon Milne was a British television producer and executive. He had a long career at the BBC, where he was eventually promoted to Director-General, and was described by The Independent as "one of the most original and talented programme-makers to emerge during television's formative years".
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]