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The legacy carrier airlines that remain in operation must learn to survive in a competitive market, and to make money without turning routes and networks into monopolies.
The suggested policy changes could reinvigorate the countryâs oil industry and ease American dependence on OPEC, experts say.
Groups opposed to the Police Departmentâs stop-and-frisk strategy coalesced, becoming a regular and loud presence at rallies.
As German towns work to hide the emptiness, demographers say a similar fate awaits other European countries, with frightening implications for the economy.
The Food and Drug Administration is considering the residual drowsiness that can persist the day after taking prescription sleep aids, and whether users can drive safely upon waking.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 14, 2013, covering August 14, 2013.
Robin Thicke
Five Finger Death Punch
Jay-Z
Tech N9ne
Backstreet Boys
2013Jack Germond, American journalist and author (born 1928)[â ]
John Worthen Germond was an American journalist, author, and pundit whose career spanned over 50 years. Germond wrote for the Washington Star and the Baltimore Sun, and was a longtime panelist on the television discussion show The McLaughlin Group. Together with Jules Witcover, Germond also co-wrote "Politics Today," a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for almost a quarter-century.
2013Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.[â ]
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, largest city, and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 109 million inhabitants, Egypt is the third-most populous country in Africa and 15th-most populated in the world.
2013UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at BirminghamâShuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.[â ]
UPS Airlines Flight 1354 was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama. On August 14, 2013, the Airbus A300 flying the route crashed and burst into flames short of the runway on approach to BirminghamâShuttlesworth International Airport. Both pilots were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. They were the only people aboard the aircraft. It was the second fatal air crash for UPS Airlines.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]