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A federal judge’s antitrust finding against Apple over e-book prices underscores how much the book industry has changed and bolsters the advantage held by the online retailer.
Republicans indicated they would not take up anything resembling the Senate bill, putting in jeopardy the future of sweeping legislation that includes a path to citizenship.
After a year in the United States, Chen Guangcheng finds himself enmeshed in controversies over partisan politics.
After a rift, members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have agreed on a plan to curb risky overseas trading as a Friday deadline approaches. The agency and European regulators also announced a broad “path forward” for how to jointly approach cross-border trades.
As a new flash point in the abortion debate focuses on regulating clinics, Maryland’s stricter oversight, spurred by the troubled practice of one doctor, has won rare praise.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 10, 2013, covering July 11, 2013.
Wale
J. Cole
Kanye West
Skillet
Daft Punk
2013Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (born 1923)[†]
Emik Avakian was an Armenian American inventor and owner of numerous patents including breath-operated computer, a mechanism that facilitates putting wheelchairs on automobiles, and a self operating robotic wheel that converts manual wheel chairs into automatic. Many of his inventions were geared towards the improvement of disabled people's lives, and he won many awards recognizing these efforts.
2013Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)[†]
Egbert Valentin Brieskorn was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution.
2013Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (born 1918)[†]
Eugene Parks "Dennis" Wilkinson was a United States Navy officer. He was selected for three historic command assignments. The first, in 1954, was as the first commanding officer of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. The second was as the first commanding officer of USS Long Beach, America's first nuclear surface ship. The third was in 1980 when he was chosen as the first President and CEO of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) from which he retired in 1984.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]