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A young man’s suicide highlights issues in the treatment of A.D.H.D., as youths fake symptoms to feed their addictions to potentially dangerous stimulants.
The Republican Party’s biggest donors are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts.
Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL, had taken a troubled fellow veteran to a gun range for a kind of therapy session, but the police said the man turned his gun on Mr. Kyle.
The common auction-house practice of granting anonymity to sellers could change, depending on the outcome of an appeal to be heard by a New York State court.
A tour featuring hats from the collection of Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, will begin Monday at the New York Public Library’s Fifth Avenue building.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 30, 2013, covering February 3, 2013.
A$AP Rocky
Kidz Bop Kids
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Taylor Swift
Bruno Mars
2013Cardiss Collins, American politician (born 1931)[†]
Cardiss Hortense Collins was an American politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the fourth African-American woman in Congress and the first to represent the Midwest. Collins was elected to Congress in the June 5, 1973 special election to replace her husband, George, who had died in the December 8, 1972 United Airlines Flight 553 plane crash a month after being elected to a second term. The seat had been renumbered and combined from the 6th district to the 7th, and had been redrawn to include the Loop. She had previously worked as an accountant in various state government positions.
2013Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (born 1921)[†]
Oscar Borisovich Feltsman was a Ukrainian-born composer of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He was the father of Vladimir Feltsman.
2013James Muri, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)[†]
James Perry Muri was an American World War II pilot. His United States Army Air Forces squadron helped protect Midway Island during the war by attacking a Japanese aircraft carrier task force.
2013Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (born 1954)[†]
Jam Mir Mohammad Yousaf Aliani was the 12th Jam of Lasbela, and a former Chief Minister of Balochistan province of Pakistan.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]