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Some wireless carriers contend Appleâs strict contracts are putting other cellphone makers at a disadvantage.
A recording played in a lawsuit over millions of stop-and-frisk encounters suggested that, in at least one Bronx precinct, skin color can be a deciding factor in who is stopped.
The low-cost model that has aided LPL Financialâs explosive growth has brought with it a host of shortcomings, authorities and analysts say.
The cut was meant to match the prices of American online retailers, but has highlighted a source of embarrassment: that most hockey gear is made in China.
An anthology of letters sheds light on the very private Willa Cather, now that her ban on publication of her correspondence has been lifted decades after her death.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 2013, covering March 22, 2013.
Luke Bryan
Jimi Hendrix
Bruno Mars
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2013VladimĂr Äech, Czech actor and politician (born 1951)[â ]
VladimĂr Äech was a Czech actor, presenter and politician.
2013Bebo ValdĂ©s, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)[â ]
Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro, better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band arrangements and compositions of mambo, chachachå and batanga, a genre he created in 1952.
2013At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.[â ]
On 22 March 2013, a fire at the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp in Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand, killed 37 Karen refugees from neighbouring Myanmar, as well as destroying hundreds of dwellings. Thought to have started following a "cooking accident", the fire began at around 16:00 local time, and extinguished around two hours later. The fire had been spread by hot weather combined with strong winds.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]