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Aereo denies stations the fees cable operators pay to retransmit their signals, so networks are determined to shut it down — even, they say, if they have to go cable-only.
After peace talks with the United States broke down in Doha, eight or more relatively high-ranking Taliban officials remained there without a mission.
In his 17 months trying to remake the chain, Ronald B. Johnson relied on his instincts and rebuffed the doubts of others, associates say.
With Ron Johnson’s ouster this week, J.C. Penney, a 111-year-old retail chain, is scrambling to ensure that it has a future at all. And the solution may be a sale of some or all of the company.
A lobbying effort to install Sri Srinivasan on the most prestigious appellate court will test a strategy that the White House hopes will put Republicans in a bind.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 10, 2013, covering April 10, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
Lil Wayne
Blake Shelton
OneRepublic
Alan Jackson
2013Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (born 1922)[†]
Lorenzo Antonetti was a Cardinal in the Catholic Church, who held several positions in the Vatican diplomatic service.
2013Raymond Boudon, French sociologist and academic (born 1934)[†]
Raymond Boudon was a sociologist, philosopher and Professor in the Paris-Sorbonne University.
2013Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (born 1911)[†]
Binod Bihari Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi social worker and anti-colonial revolutionary. An influential member in the Indian independence movement and veteran of the civil society of Bangladesh, he is mostly known for his participation in the Chittagong armoury raid, an armed uprising led by Surya Sen to uproot the British colonial rule in India in 1930.
2013Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)[†]
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with obstetrician and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy, Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978. They founded the first IVF programme for infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization".
2013Olive Lewin, Jamaican anthropologist, musicologist, and author (born 1927)[†]
Olive Wilhelmina Mahoney Lewin OD OM was a Jamaican author, social anthropologist, musicologist, and teacher. She is best known for her recorded anthologies of old Jamaican folk music songs, researched and collected over her lifetime.
2013Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (born 1921)[†]
Gordon W. "Tiny" Thomas was a British cyclist who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. There he won a silver medal in the team road race alongside Bob Maitland and Ian Scott. He also competed in the individual event, finishing 8th in a field of 101 participants. Born in Shipley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he served during World War II with the Royal Artillery in Africa and Italy. After his Olympic experience, he went on to win the 1953 Tour of Britain before retiring from cycling to enter the wool business.
2013Angela Voigt, German long jumper (born 1951)[†]
Angela Voigt, née Schmalfeld was an East German long jumper.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]