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Nearly 2,700 students were wrongly told they were not eligible for seats in public school gifted and talented programs because of errors in scoring admission tests.
The success of the cameras-and-software system created by the German firm GoalControl is crucial in helping soccer catch up to other major sports in its use of technology.
Evan Gattis was 19 when he disappeared off the baseball grid in 2006 to do some soul searching and work a number of odd jobs. Now heâs the Atlanta Bravesâ catcher and No. 4 hitter.
Entering his 10th postseason, Carmelo Anthony carries the burdens of a cityâs expectations and his past playoff failures.
Despite strong recent job growth, 7.6 million Americans who want to work more hours have been stuck in part-time jobs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 17, 2013, covering April 20, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
The Band Perry
Tyler| the Creator
Blake Shelton
Lil Wayne
2013A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.[â ]
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw⯠was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Similar to the local magnitude/Richter scale (MLâŻ) defined by Charles Francis Richter in 1935, it uses a logarithmic scale; small earthquakes have approximately the same magnitudes on both scales. Despite the difference, news media often use the term "Richter scale" when referring to the moment magnitude scale.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]