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September 9, 2013

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Headlines from September 9, 2013

Picking Death Over Eviction

By Ian Johnson

Some farmers commit suicide to protest eviction, a reminder of how China’s new urbanization push is at times a violent struggle with a powerful state.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 4, 2013, covering September 9, 2013.

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    Album cover for Crash My Party by Luke Bryan

    Crash My Party

    Luke Bryan

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    Album cover for Paradise Valley by John Mayer

    Paradise Valley

    John Mayer

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    Album cover for Three Kings by TGT

    Three Kings

    TGT

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    Album cover for Songs From St. Somewhere by Jimmy Buffett

    Songs From St. Somewhere

    Jimmy Buffett

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    Album cover for Doris by Earl Sweatshirt

    Doris

    Earl Sweatshirt

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Notable Deaths

2013Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan scholar and activist (born 1952)[†]

Sunila Abeysekera was a Sri Lankan human rights campaigner. She worked on women's rights in Sri Lanka and in the South Asia region for decades as an activist and scholar. Quitting a career as a singer, Abeysekera briefly joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and then founded the Women and Media Collective in 1984. As head of the INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre, she monitored human rights violations by all parties in the civil war. She received the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1999 and the Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award in 2013.

Alberto Bevilacqua

2013Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1934)[†]

Alberto Bevilacqua was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, who read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the Journal of Parma, began to publish his stories in the early 1950s.

Saul Landau

2013Saul Landau, American journalist, director, and author (born 1936)[†]

Saul Landau was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media.

Historical Context for September 9, 2013

In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]