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Israel sees the enforcement of President Obama’s “red line” as essential to halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and seems to prefer an attack that would maintain the status quo without strengthening either side.
Only about one in five visitors to a National Park site is nonwhite, according to a report commissioned by the Park Service, and only about 1 in 10 is Hispanic.
David Blech, who was once biotechnology’s top gunslinger and was worth about $300 million, is about to begin a four-year prison term, having pleaded guilty to stock manipulation.
As Wladimir Balentien closes in on a single-season home run record of 55, first set by Sadaharu Oh, many fans are now rooting for Oh’s record to fall, a development that once seemed unthinkable.
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office is reviewing cases handled by Louis Scarcella, a detective accused of fabricating confessions. But the work of prosecutors is also in question.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 4, 2013, covering September 6, 2013.
Luke Bryan
John Mayer
TGT
Jimmy Buffett
Earl Sweatshirt
2013Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)[†]
Ann Carol Crispin was an American science fiction writer and the author of 23 published novels. She wrote several Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations; she also created an original science fiction series called StarBridge.
2013Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (born 1926)[†]
Khin Maung Kyi was a Burmese economist and scholar. He also served as a government consultant to several of Burma's ministries.
2013Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (born 1939)[†]
Santiago Rosario was a first baseman and corner outfielder who played briefly for the Kansas City Athletics during the 1965 season. Listed at 5' 11", 165 lb., Rosario batted and threw left handed. He was born in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.
2013Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.[†]
In chemistry, cyanide is an inorganic chemical compound that contains a C≡N functional group. This group, known as the cyano group, consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]