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Prices for used cars jumped during the recession, when supply could not meet demand. Now more cars are coming off their leases, and prices are expected to fall.
The $10,000 degrees are available in Florida and Texas â but not for many students, not for many majors and not on the flagship campuses.
The Cardinals were eager to clinch their series against the Dodgers for a lot of reasons. Lifting Carlos Beltran to his first World Series was one of them.
A surplus of lobster has pushed down prices and stoked arguments over the coast of origin, and even which flagâs catch is the tastiest.
The World Bank estimates that 80 percent of Peruâs logging exports are illegally harvested, a problem compounded by bribery and obstacles to prosecution.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 16, 2013, covering October 19, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
Drake
Lorde
Luke Bryan
Tyler Farr
2013John Bergamo, American drummer and composer (born 1940)[â ]
John Bergamo was an American percussionist and composer known for his film soundtrack contributions and his work with numerous other notable performers. From 1970 until his death, he was the coordinator of the percussion department at the California Institute of the Arts.
2013Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and skier (born 1934)[â ]
Noel John Christopher Harrison was an English actor and singer. In the 1950s, he was a member of the British Olympic skiing team. In 1968, Harrison had a top-10 hit in the UK Singles Chart with "The Windmills of Your Mind". He was the son of actor Rex Harrison.
2013Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer (born 1940)[â ]
Ronald Shannon Jackson was an American jazz drummer from Fort Worth, Texas. A pioneer of avant-garde jazz, free funk, and jazz fusion, he appeared on over 50 albums as a bandleader, sideman, arranger, and producer. Jackson and bassist Sirone are the only musicians to have performed and recorded with the three prime shapers of free jazz: pianist Cecil Taylor, and saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler.
2013Mikihiko RenjĆ, Japanese author (born 1948)[â ]
Mikihiko RenjĆ was a Japanese writer, winner of the Naoki Prize. He was also an ordained priest within the Ćtani-ha branch of JĆdo ShinshĆ« Buddhism.
2013Mahmoud Zoufonoun, Iranian-American violinist and composer (born 1920)[â ]
Ostad (âMasterâ) Mahmoud Zoufonoun was an Iranian-born American musician accomplished in the art of Persian traditional music.
2013One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.[â ]
The Buenos Aires train crash occurred on October 19, 2013 when a passenger train failed to stop at a terminal station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, injuring 105 people. As of October 2013, the cause of the accident was sleeping at the controls.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]