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Less ice along the Northeast Passage means Russian energy companies have more places to drill and a clear shipping lane to reach customers in China.
The extent to which an indictment or a conviction can be damaging depends on details of the nature of the business and of a company’s customers.
Fabrice P. Tourre, a former Goldman Sachs trader, was questioned for about two hours on Wednesday by Matthew T. Martens, a government lawyer, over a trade arranged by ACA Management for the John A. Paulson hedge fund.
The 450 officers in a recently enlarged police unit make 70,000 visits a year to households with histories of violence, trying to stop abusers from becoming killers.
After years of trying to pin criminal charges on the billionaire Steven A. Cohen, the authorities came together on a more unusual plan: indict Mr. Cohen’s hedge fund itself.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 24, 2013, covering July 25, 2013.
Jay-Z
Ciara
J. Cole
Florida Georgia Line
Imagine Dragons
2013Walter De Maria, American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (born 1935)[†]
Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual art, and land art of the 1960s.
2013William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (born 1922)[†]
William Joseph Guste Jr. was an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana. He was Attorney General of Louisiana from 1972 to 1992.
2013Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (born 1924)[†]
Hugh Esmor Huxley was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. He was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge. However, his education was interrupted for five years by the Second World War, during which he served in the Royal Air Force. His contribution to development of radar earned him an MBE.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]