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An obscure London firm may determine whether Jamie Dimon keeps his dual role as chief executive and chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
A project to create a plant that glows in the dark, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace streetlamps, has been denounced for tinkering with genes.
Microsoft said Windows 8 was selling at a similar pace to Windows 7, but added that many users were frustrated by changes to the software.
The Obama administration is on the verge of backing an F.B.I. plan for an overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate over the Internet rather than by phone.
In âOld-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance),â a mind-bending play by Richard Foreman at the Public Theater, an aging man sifts through past encounters.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 8, 2013, covering May 8, 2013.
Michael Buble
Fantasia
Justin Timberlake
Phoenix
Fall Out Boy
2013Jeanne Cooper, American actress (born 1928)[â ]
Wilma Jeanne Cooper was an American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973â2013). At the time of her death, she had played Katherine for nearly 40 years, and her name appears on the list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States.
2013Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)[â ]
Bryan Forbes CBE was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".
2013Juan JosĂ© Muñoz, Argentinian businessman (born 1950)[â ]
Juan JosĂ© Muñoz was an Argentine businessman. He was an advisor to the current Minister of Interior, Mr. AnĂbal FernĂĄndez, during the period when the latter was a federal senator. Afterwards, he worked for the trade union that represents State Workers.
2013Hugh J. Silverman, American philosopher and theorist (born 1945)[â ]
Hugh J. Silverman was an American philosopher and cultural theorist whose writing, lecturing, teaching, editing, and international conferencing participated in the development of a postmodern network. He was executive director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature and professor of philosophy and comparative literary and cultural studies at Stony Brook University, where he was also affiliated with the Department of Art and the Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He was program director for the Stony Brook Advanced Graduate Certificate in Art and Philosophy. He was also co-founder and co-director of the annual International Philosophical Seminar since 1991 in South Tyrol, Italy. From 1980 to 1986, he served as executive co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. His work draws upon deconstruction, hermeneutics, semiotics, phenomenology, aesthetics, art theory, film theory, and the archeology of knowledge.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]