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The University of Waterloo, a world-class engineering school in Canada, is a feeder campus for big-name global tech companies like BlackBerry, a neighbor and Waterloo offshoot.
The magazine has outlasted a string of rivals in a sector notable for its audience outgrowing it every few years.
The administration is moving to approve the nation’s first rules for how the military can defend, or retaliate, against a major cyberattack.
Time will tell if Thomas Tull, one of the most successful walk-on players in movie history, really is the latest outsider to win an insider’s game through his company, Legendary Entertainment.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has a proposal to spend as much as $400 million to buy homes wrecked by Hurricane Sandy, demolish them and preserve the undeveloped land.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 30, 2013, covering February 4, 2013.
A$AP Rocky
Kidz Bop Kids
Soundtrack
Taylor Swift
Bruno Mars
2013Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (born 1932)[†]
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, composer and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop musicians who successfully explored funk and soul while remaining a jazz artist. As a bandleader, Byrd was an influence on the early career of Herbie Hancock and many others.
2013Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (born 1941)[†]
Reginald Maurice Ball, known professionally as Reg Presley, was an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer with the 1960s rock and roll band the Troggs, whose hits included "Wild Thing" and "With a Girl Like You". He wrote the song "Love Is All Around", which was featured in the films Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]