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A move by Wal-Mart to require labels on products that contain genetically engineered ingredients could be influential in developing a national labeling program.
Binge-viewing has become such a popular way for Americans to watch TV that it is changing the ways that networks create and distribute episodes.
The United Food and Commercial Workers pledged not to try to unionize Walmart workers to avert charges that it engaged in illegal picketing.
Federal authorities are scrutinizing the private consultants hired by banks to clean up financial misdeeds like money laundering and foreclosure abuses, taking aim at a conflict-riddled, billion-dollar industry.
Shops owned by Arabs have been looted in the city and some residents have fled, a foretaste of ethnic strife that many fear will roil Mali for years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 30, 2013, covering February 1, 2013.
A$AP Rocky
Kidz Bop Kids
Soundtrack
Taylor Swift
Bruno Mars
2013Helene Hale, American politician (born 1918)[†]
Helene Hale was an American politician from the state of Hawaii.
2013Ed Koch, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (born 1924)[†]
Edward Irving Koch was an American politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
2013Shanu Lahiri, Indian painter and educator (born 1928)[†]
Shanu Lahiri was a painter and art educator from Kolkata. She was one of Kolkata's most prominent public artists, often called "the city's First Lady of Public Art", undertaking extensive graffiti art drives across Kolkata to beautify the city and hide aggressive political sloganeering. Her paintings are housed in the Salar Jung Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art.
2013Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)[†]
Cecil Dale Womack was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He was one of the musical Womack brothers, and had success both as a songwriter and recording artist, notably with his second wife Linda as Womack & Womack. In later years he took the name Zekkariyas.
2013The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public.[†]
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development. Standing 309.6 metres high, The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the seventh-tallest building in Europe, and the second-tallest outside Russia behind the Varso Tower in Warsaw, which beats the Shard by less than half a metre. The Shard replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in 1975.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]