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All-cash buyers are making it more difficult for first-time buyers to purchase a home in a market that has changed significantly, and prices are quickly rising.
A revolution in software technology has transformed the National Security Agency by providing automated and instantaneous analysis of volumes of digital information.
Russia’s prosecution of low-level participants at protests seems to be a message to other ordinary Russians about taking part.
As the justices on the Supreme Court consider two major cases on same-sex marriage, students of the court say factors other than just legal issues may play a role.
The Federal Trade Commission wants to better distinguish the blurred line between celebrity endorsements and mere appreciation on social media.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 5, 2013, covering June 9, 2013.
Daft Punk
Darius Rucker
The National
French Montana
Soundtrack
2013Iain Banks, Scottish author (born 1954)[†]
Iain Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. After the success of The Wasp Factory (1984), he began to write full time. His first science fiction book, Consider Phlebas, appeared in 1987, marking the start of the Culture series. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
2013Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (born 1926)[†]
Bruno Bartoletti was an Italian operatic conductor. His active international career lasted from 1953 to 2007, and he specialized in the Italian repertory and contemporary works. He was particularly noted for his 51-year association with Lyric Opera of Chicago, as co-artistic director, artistic director, principal conductor, and artistic director emeritus. He also served as Artistic Director of both the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1965–1973) and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1985–1991), and as principal conductor of the Danish Royal Opera (1957–1960), in addition to frequent work as a guest conductor at various major opera houses.
2013John Burke, English rugby player (born 1948)[†]
John Burke was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Normanton, Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, as a prop.
2013Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (born 1923)[†]
Walter Jens was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.
2013Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (born 1920)[†]
Zdeněk Rotrekl was a Czech and Czechoslovak Catholic poet, literary historian and writer. He was severely persecuted for his work and Roman Catholic beliefs during Czechoslovakia's Communist era from 1948 to 1989, including thirteen years in prison. The Communist government also banned his work for more than forty years. The Prague Daily Monitor has called him "one of the most distinguished personalities of the Catholic stream in Czech poetry of the latter half of the 20th century."
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]