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The dangers of news organizations reporting in Syria have kept most journalists outside the country’s borders and heightened the need for third-party video.
The Internal Revenue Service set down the rules that will cost or save a particular couple money, including how those who live in the 37 states that do not sanction same-sex marriages will fare.
One day after the announcement of a $765 million settlement in a concussion lawsuit, some former players and their families expressed mixed feelings.
Activist hedge funds have grown more ambitious, taking on larger companies and seeking long-term change over short-term profit, unlike raiders of the past.
Facing faltering support in foreign capitals and Congress, the Obama administration made an aggressive push to justify military intervention in Syria on the grounds that American credibility was at stake.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 2013, covering August 31, 2013.
Luke Bryan
K. Michelle
Various Artists
Robin Thicke
The Civil Wars
2013Alan Carrington, English chemist and academic (born 1934)[†]
Alan Carrington CBE, FRS was a British chemist and one of the leading spectroscopists in Britain in the late twentieth century.
2013David Frost, English journalist and game show host (born 1939)[†]
Sir David Paradine Frost was an English television host, journalist, comedian and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on American television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them the Nixon interviews with US president Richard Nixon in 1977 which were adapted into a stage play and film. Frost interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving from 1964 to his death in 2013, from Alec Douglas-Home to David Cameron, and all seven American presidents in office from 1969 to 2008.
2013Jimmy Greenhalgh, English footballer and manager (born 1923)[†]
James Radcliffe Greenhalgh was an English football player and manager. He played as a wing half and made nearly 300 appearances in the Football League for Hull City, Bury and Gillingham. As a manager, he took charge of Darlington from 1966 to 1968 and had a lengthy career in coaching and scouting.
2013Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (born 1939)[†]
Jan Camiel Willems was a Belgian mathematical system theorist who has done most of his scientific work while residing in the Netherlands and the United States. He is most noted for the introduction of the notion of a dissipative system and for the development of the behavioral approach to systems theory.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]