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Cramped for space and reluctant to shut down its 787 production lines, Boeing is said to be looking for storage after the United States grounded the jetliners.
Msgr. Kevin Wallin, formerly pastor of the Diocese of Bridgeport’s mother church in Connecticut, is charged with dealing crystal methamphetamine.
“Really Really,” by Paul Downs Colaizzo, looks at goal-oriented lives adrift on a college campus.
A simple, cheap screening offers the hope of diagnosing and curing leprosy, even in the poorest places, before victims are permanently disabled or disfigured.
A collection of cases on the Deepwater Horizon spill are headed for federal court, where they are expected to have a broad effect on environmental law.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 20, 2013, covering February 20, 2013.
Josh Groban
Tim McGraw
Various Artists
Mumford & Sons
Andrea Bocelli
2013Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (born 1970)[†]
Kenji Eno was a Japanese musician and video game designer. He gained a reputation as a maverick during the mid-1990s for creating unorthodox games like Real Sound and is perhaps best remembered today for his rebellious marketing techniques. Outside of his homeland he was best known for his survival horror video games, D and Enemy Zero. Apart from creating video games, Eno was also a well-regarded electronic musician and he created the scores for several of his games. Eno founded the video game development companies EIM, Warp, and From Yellow to Orange. He also worked in a variety of fields apart from video games and music including the automotive, cellphone, tobacco, and hotel industries.
2013David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (born 1936)[†]
David Stewart McKay was the chief scientist for Astrobiology at the Johnson Space Center. During the Apollo program, McKay provided geology training to the first men to walk on the Moon in the late 1960s. McKay was the first author of a scientific paper postulating past life on Mars based on evidence in Martian meteorite ALH 84001, which had been found in Antarctica. This paper has become one of the most heavily cited papers in planetary science. The NASA Astrobiology Institute was founded partially due to community interest in this paper and related topics. He was a native of Titusville, Pennsylvania.
2013Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (born 1932)[†]
Antonio Roma was an Argentine footballer who played as a goalkeeper, notably for Boca Juniors.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]