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A mysterious ailment appears to have expanded drastically in the past year, wiping out as many as half of the hives needed to pollinate much of America’s produce.
Hundreds of brewers went to Washington this week to seek aid that they said would help them brew more beer and hire more workers.
Sprint Nextel and SoftBank, its Japanese suitor, are expected to accept restrictions from American law enforcement officials on the companies’ ability to pick telecommunications suppliers.
The grab for influence and power in the city shows that the Taliban have been able to extend their reach across Pakistan, not just in the country’s frontier regions.
When Michael S. Steinberg became the most senior employee to be ensnared in the investigation, his charmed life came undone.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 27, 2013, covering March 29, 2013.
Bon Jovi
David Bowie
Luke Bryan
Passion
Bruno Mars
2013Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter (born 1930)[†]
Reginald Gray was an Irish portrait artist. He studied at The National College of Art (1953) and then moved to London, becoming part of the School of London led by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. In 1960, he painted a portrait of Bacon which is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. He subsequently painted portraits from life of writers, musicians and artists such as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Brendan Behan, Garech Browne, Derry O'Sullivan, Alfred Schnittke, Ted Hughes, Rupert Everett and Yves Saint Laurent. In 1993 Gray had a retrospective exhibition at UNESCO Paris and in 2006, his portrait "The White Blouse" won the Sandro Botticelli Prize in Florence, Italy.
2013Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (born 1931)[†]
Brian Edgar Huggins was a British-Canadian journalist and actor.
2013Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (born 1942)[†]
Ralph Philip Klein was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 12th premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. Klein also served as the 32nd mayor of Calgary from 1980 to 1989.
2013Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (born 1930)[†]
Arthur Phillips served as the 32nd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977. Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North. Phillips was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level political party, TEAM, in 1968. Also in that year, he was elected as an alderman to Vancouver City Council.
2013At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.[†]
The Dar es Salaam building collapse occurred during the early hours of Good Friday on 29 March 2013 when a 16-floor residential apartment building collapsed on a nearby mosque compound, killing 36 people and trapping over 60 under the rubble.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]