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A video focusing on Doveâs findings that only 4 percent of women consider themselves beautiful has been viewed more than seven million times on YouTube.
Among civic leaders in Warsaw, a new Jewish museum is seen as a major step toward recognizing Polandâs Jewish past and recovering from its 20th-century traumas.
Shares of Apple were trading for more than $700 last year, but they have tumbled back and analysts are trying to understand why.
Despite its violence, âOrphans,â a revival of Lyle Kesslerâs 1985 play starring Alec Baldwin, Tom Sturridge and Ben Foster, has a soft touch.
The failure this week of the Senateâs search for consensus on gun control after the Newtown shooting can be traced to timing, convoluted rules and a counterproductive alliance.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 17, 2013, covering April 19, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
The Band Perry
Tyler| the Creator
Blake Shelton
Lil Wayne
2013François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)[â ]
François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.
2013Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (born 1924)[â ]
Allen Harold "Al" Neuharth was an American businessman, author, and columnist born in Eureka, South Dakota. He was the founder of USA Today, The Freedom Forum, and its Newseum.
2013Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.[â ]
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs that detonated near the finish line of the race 14 seconds and 210 yards (190Â m) apart. Three people were killed and hundreds injured, including a dozen who lost limbs.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]