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There are more than a dozen restaurants, cafes, sandwich bars and formal dining rooms on the Hill — almost all good for people watching, when you can get in.
Some of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones industrial average are still down from their peaks, reflecting a move in financial power.
The abolishment of Yahoo’s work-from-home policy created a stir among workers, but some employees say a new office culture is needed.
Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson star in the Roundabout’s revival of “Talley’s Folly,” Lanford Wilson’s romantic comedy.
Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot by the sprinter Oscar Pistorius, had big plans for her newfound fame, including speaking about violence against women in South Africa, friends and family said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 6, 2013, covering March 6, 2013.
Mumford & Sons
Bruno Mars
Josh Groban
Various Artists
The Lumineers
2013Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1970)[†]
Alexandre Magno Abrão, known professionally as Chorão, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, skateboarder, filmmaker, screenwriter and businessman. Best known for being a founding member and the vocalist/main lyricist of the influential rock band Charlie Brown Jr., Folha de S.Paulo critic André Barcinski considered him "the nearest thing to a punk hero Brazilian mainstream music ever had", and Eduardo Tristão Girão of Portal Uai called him "the bad boy of Brazilian rock" and "the spokesman of the youth of the 1990s". Having been born and raised for most of his childhood in São Paulo, Chorão was the only Charlie Brown Jr. member not to be a Santos native, and its only founding member to remain consistently in all of the group's line-ups.
2013Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)[†]
Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies.
2013Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)[†]
Alvin Lee was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
2013W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (born 1930)[†]
William Wallace Cleland (January 6, 1930 – March 6, 2013, often cited as W. W. Cleland, and known almost universally as "Mo Cleland", was a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry professor. His research was concerned with enzyme reaction mechanism and enzyme kinetics, especially multiple-substrate enzymes. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]