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Around the world, a growing number of billionaires are purchasing homes at record prices, and reportssuggest that the luxury-buying ballet is likely poised for a sustained performance.
With the spinoff of Time Inc., Time Warner has become an example of the media industry’s shift away from rapid acquisition and growth.
The life and career of Ann Richards, the onetime governor of Texas, are being given a ticker tape parade on the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Preservationists are fighting what they consider shortsighted decisions to sell architecturally distinctive post office buildings.
The joblessness rate sank to 7.7 percent as 236,000 positions were added across a broad range of sectors, but analysts warned that federal budget cuts could slow the recovery.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 6, 2013, covering March 8, 2013.
Mumford & Sons
Bruno Mars
Josh Groban
Various Artists
The Lumineers
2013John O'Connell, Irish politician, Irish Minister of Health (born 1927)[†]
John Francis O'Connell was an Irish politician who served as Minister for Health from 1992 to 1993 and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1981 to 1982. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1965 to 1987 and from 1989 to 1993. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1979 to 1981. He was a Senator from 1987 to 1989, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
2013Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (born 1922)[†]
Ewald-Heinrich Hermann Konrad Oskar Ulrich Wolf Alfred von Kleist-Schmenzin was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998. A member of the von Kleist family and an officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, his parents were active in the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. Von Kleist was designated to kill Hitler in a suicide attack and was the last surviving member of the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]