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Children shot accidentally — usually by other children — are collateral casualties of the accessibility of guns in America, their deaths at once heart-rending and eminently preventable.
Georgia’s Aaron Murray and Louisiana State’s Zach Mettenberger combined for 7 touchdowns and almost 700 yards of offense in a duel between two of the top quarterbacks in the Southeastern Conference.
Syria’s capital is now a city of checkpoints, new arrivals and a pervasive sense of war weariness, where even those of opposite views seem worn out by their differences.
Some uninsured people are eager to sign up for new state marketplaces, but for others the decision will require a series of complicated calculations.
Beginning this fall, Bard College will look beyond grades and test scores by offering a new option for applying: writing four, 2,500-word research papers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 25, 2013, covering September 29, 2013.
Keith Urban
The Weeknd
2 Chainz
Luke Bryan
Janelle Monae
2013Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (born 1921)[†]
Harold Melvin Agnew was an American physicist, best known for having flown as a scientific observer on the Hiroshima bombing mission and, later, as the third director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2013S. N. Goenka, Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (born 1924)[†]
Satya Narayana Goenka was an Indian teacher of vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India in 1969 and started teaching meditation. His teaching emphasized that the Buddha's path to liberation was non-sectarian, universal, and scientific in character. He became an influential teacher and played an important role in establishing non-commercial Vipassana meditation centers globally. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2012, an award given for distinguished service of high order.
2013Marcella Hazan, Italian cooking writer (born 1924)[†]
Marcella Hazan was an Italian cooking writer whose books were published in English. Her cookbooks are credited with introducing the public in the United States and the United Kingdom to the techniques of traditional Italian cooking. She was considered by chefs and fellow food writers to be the doyenne of Italian cuisine.
2013Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.[†]
On 29 September 2013, gunmen from Boko Haram entered the male dormitory in the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Yobe State, Nigeria, killing forty-four students and teachers.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]