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The Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, the largest in the United States, ensures a bigger market for Saudi crude and a stronger global voice for the kingdom.
Majora Carter earned fame and fortune as an environmental activist fighting for the South Bronx, but her swift rise has also made her a polarizing figure.
The manhunt that led to a notorious trafficker’s capture was a hard-nosed display of the Chinese government’s political and economic sway across Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
Federal Reserve officials are wondering how to remain cautious even as signs show that the labor market is improving more rapidly than expected.
Kathryn Hunter plays an ape who plays a man in “Kafka’s Monkey,” a solo show at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 3, 2013, covering April 5, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
Kacey Musgraves
Bruno Mars
Luke Bryan
P!nk
2013Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (born 1921)[†]
Regina Bianchi was an Italian stage and film actress.
2013Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (born 1924)[†]
Piero de Palma was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles.
2013Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (born 1930)[†]
Nikolaos Pappas was a Hellenic Navy admiral who, as commander of the destroyer Velos, played a major part in the abortive rebellion of the Navy in May 1973 against the ruling military junta. After the restoration of democracy he served as chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff in 1982–1986 and Minister for Mercantile Marine in 1989–1990.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]