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The infighting between the top American female players Serena Williams and Sloane Stephens over the last few months served as a backdrop to Williamsâs dominant 6-4, 6-1 victory.
The scale and longevity of a data storage program run by the government in partnership with AT&T was unmatched by other government programs, including the National Security Agencyâs gathering of phone call logs.
In an era when digital effects have made the use of small models and suited actors look quaint, tokusatsu, or âspecial filming,â is on the way out.
Christine C. Quinn changed her position against overturning New Yorkâs term limits law after prodding from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. But the about-face haunts her still.
After 20 consecutive losing seasons, a record for futility in the major American professional sports, the Pittsburgh Pirates are poised to make the playoffs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 2013, covering September 2, 2013.
Luke Bryan
K. Michelle
Various Artists
Robin Thicke
The Civil Wars
2013ValĂ©rie Benguigui, French actress and director (born 1965)[â ]
Valérie Benguigui was a French actress and theater director. Born in Oran, Algeria, she took acting courses at the Cours Florent and the National Chaillot Theatre School. Her first film role was in Francis Huster's On a volé Charlie Spencer (1986).
2013Terry Clawson, English rugby player and coach (born 1940)[â ]
Terence "Terry" A. Clawson was an English World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played from the 1950s through to the 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain between 1962 and 1974, and was part of the 1972 Rugby League World Cup winning squad. He also played for Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (captain), Bradford Northern, Leeds, Hull Kingston Rovers, Oldham, York, Wakefield Trinity, Hull F.C. and South Newcastle, as a goal-kicking prop or second-row. He coached at club level for South Newcastle and Featherstone Rovers.
2013Ronald Coase, English-American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)[â ]
Ronald Harry Coase was a British economist and author. Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991.
2013David Jacobs, English radio and television host (born 1926)[â ]
David Lewis Jacobs was a British broadcaster. He was the presenter of the BBC Television series Juke Box Jury in the 1960s, and chaired the long-running BBC Radio 4 topical discussion series Any Questions?. His earlier radio work included small acting parts: over the years he played himself or the characters of presenters in film, television and radio productions. Jacobs finally stepped down as a BBC Radio 2 presenter shortly before his death in 2013, his career having spanned more than 65 years.
2013Frederik Pohl, American author and publisher (born 1919)[â ]
Frederik George Pohl Jr. was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 yearsâfrom his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.
2013Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (born 1935)[â ]
Sir Paul Godwin Scoon was a Grenadian politician who served as governor-general of Grenada from 1978 to 1992. His tenure is notable for the hectic events related to the rise and fall of the People's Revolutionary Government, as well as his personal involvement in and support of the invasion of Grenada.
2013The Eastern span replacement of the San FranciscoâOakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 pm at a cost of $6.4Â billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span.[â ]
The eastern span replacement of the San FranciscoâOakland Bay Bridge was a construction project to replace a seismically unsound portion of the Bay Bridge with a new self-anchored suspension bridge (SAS) and a pair of viaducts. The bridge is in the U.S. state of California and crosses the San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland. The span replacement took place between 2002 and 2013, and is the most expensive public works project in California history, with a final price tag of $6.5Â billion, a 2,500% increase from the original estimate of $250 million, which was an initial estimate for a seismic retrofit of the span, not the full span replacement ultimately completed. Originally scheduled to open in 2007, several problems delayed the opening until September 2, 2013. With a width of 258.33Â ft (78.74Â m), comprising 10Â general-purpose lanes, it is the world's widest bridge according to Guinness World Records.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]