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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]
2013Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (born 1955)[â ]
Richard Jay Corman was the founder and owner of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, a Nicholasville, Kentucky-based railroad services and short line operating company.
2013William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (born 1925)[â ]
William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory. His innovations for individual counseling, work environments and school, highlight personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation. Glasser positioned himself in opposition to conventional mainstream psychiatrists, who focus instead on classifying psychiatric syndromes as "illnesses" and prescribe psychotropic medications to treat mental disorders.
2013Charles Lisanby, American production designer and set director (born 1924)[â ]
Charles Alvin Lisanby Jr. was an American production designer who had a formative role for scenic design in early color television. During his career, Lisanby was nominated for sixteen Emmys and won three. In January 2010, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame at the nineteenth annual ceremony alongside Don Pardo, the Smothers Brothers, Bob Stewart, and Gene Roddenberry. Aside from his success in the entertainment industry, Lisanby was known for his friendship with the artist Andy Warhol.
2013Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish ethnographer and politician (born 1951)[â ]
Konstanty BronisĹaw Miodowicz was a Polish politician. He was a member of Sejm from 1997 until mid-2013, mostly as a candidate from the Civic Platform.
2013Vesna RoĹžiÄ, Slovenian chess player (born 1987)[â ]
Vesna RoĹžiÄ was a Slovenian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in April 2006. RoĹžiÄ was ranked the second best Slovenian female chess player, after Anna Muzychuk. She won the Slovenian women's championship in 2007 and 2010. In 2007, RoĹžiÄ also became the Mediterranean women's champion in Antalya. In team events, she represented Slovenia in four Women's Chess Olympiads, four Women's European Team Chess Championships, six Women's Mitropa Cups and four European Girls U18 Team Championships. In the Women's Mitropa Cup, RoĹžiÄ won two team golds, four team silvers and two individual gold medals.
2013Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (born 1927)[â ]
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union and in sociology of the countryside. She was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992 and also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zaslavskaya was the founder of RPORC and also its director in the years from 1987 to 1992. In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize and the honorary president of the Levada Center.
2013A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.[â ]
On August 23, 2013, a prison riot broke out at Palmasola, a maximum-security prison in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The riot started when members of one cell block attacked a rival gang in another, using propane tanks as flame throwers. Thirty-one people were killed, including an 18-month-old child who was living at the prison. Thirty-seven others were seriously injured. The riot led to calls for reform in the Bolivian prison system, which is plagued by overcrowding and long delays in the trial system.
As a host of CNNâs revived âCrossfire,â Newt Gingrich will become a member of the news media that he once criticized. âAnd I hope to move it to the right,â he said.
Todayâs automated stock exchanges are fast and efficient, so long as the computers are working. When things go awry, chaos can emerge quickly.
Extraterrestrialsâ big cultural moment may have come and gone, but for residents of a remote corner of Nevada, mysteries and conspiracy theories never go out of style.
David M. Bernick will move to the Dechert firm, a transition that reflects a developing era of free agency in the once-stable world of corporate law, where partners commonly switch firms, sometimes for millions of dollars.
The World Anti-Doping Agency prevented researchers from publishing a study that indicated many track and field athletes were doping.
ESPN had been working with PBS on a film about head injuries in the National Football League, whose games are shown on the sports network and represent a cherished source of revenue.
âThe Lone Rangerâ and other summer box office disappointments may one day enjoy â as âVertigoâ and âIshtarâ have â a critical and popular reappraisal.
Steven A. Ballmerâs departure paves the way for a generational change at Microsoft and gives it an opportunity to adapt to a world dominated by technologies that have eluded its influence.
By announcing his departure as Microsoftâs chief executive, Steven Ballmer has signaled an impending end to one of the most prolific deal-making streaks in technology over the past two decades. But his record is as much notable for its misses as its hits.
For Daniel R. Smith, 81, who attended the March on Washington in 1963, the country has a ways to go in realizing the dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Impala, once the darling of rental-car fleets, has been redesigned for 2014 and is now a car that can be seriously mentioned in the same context as the Toyota Avalon or Dodge Charger.
Their news shows may be over for the day, but for Gayle King and Mika Brzezinski, thereâs still plenty to talk about.