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The devastation in the Philippines has revived the debate over how to address the disproportionate effects of climate change on poorer countries, an issue that has gained momentum but faces daunting challenges.
The fumbled rollout of the health care law has forced candidates, including three congressional incumbents in New Hampshire, to balance their loyalty to the White House with the needs of an angry constituency.
Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments.
Mary Cheney and her wife sharply criticized a comment by Ms. Cheney’s sister, Liz Cheney, a candidate for the Senate in Wyoming.
The new Sims Municipal Recycling Facility opening soon in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, promises to reduce recycling costs and create jobs, all in a pleasing waterfront structure.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 13, 2013, covering November 17, 2013.
Arcade Fire
Katy Perry
Kelly Clarkson
The Robertsons
Drake
2013Zeke Bella, American baseball player (born 1930)[†]
John "Zeke" Bella was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who appeared in 52 total games for the New York Yankees in 1957 and the Kansas City Athletics in 1959.
2013Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (born 1915)[†]
Sir Alfred Lapthorn Blake, was a British solicitor, Royal Marines officer and councillor. He was Lord Mayor of Portsmouth City Council from 1958 to 1959 and director of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme from 1966 to 1978.
2013Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (born 1935)[†]
Sydney Alvin Field was an American author who wrote several books on screenwriting, the first being Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. He led workshops and seminars about producing salable screenplays. Hollywood film producers use Field's ideas on structure to measure the potential of screenplays.
2013Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)[†]
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Persia, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
2013Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (born 1993)[†]
This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.
2013Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (born 1925)[†]
Mary Nesbitt Wisham was an American baseball pitcher and first basewoman who played from 1943 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m), 155 lb., Nesbitt batted and threw left-handed. She was born Marie Crews Nesbitt in Greenville, South Carolina. Before becoming married in 1946 she played under the name of Mary Nesbitt.
2013Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.[†]
Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight, operated by Tatarstan Airlines on behalf of Ak Bars Aero, from Moscow to Kazan, Russia. On 17 November 2013, at 19:24 local time (UTC+4), the Boeing 737-500 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, killing all 44 passengers and 6 crew members on board.
2013A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.[†]
On November 17, 2013, the deadliest and costliest November tornado outbreak in Illinois history took shape, becoming the fourth-largest for the state overall. With more than 30 tornadoes in Indiana, it was that state's largest tornado outbreak for the month of November, and the second largest outbreak recorded in Indiana. Associated with a strong trough in the upper levels of the atmosphere, the event resulted in 77 tornadoes tracking across regions of the Midwest United States and Ohio River Valley, impacting seven states. Severe weather during the tornado outbreak caused over 100 injuries and eleven fatalities, of which eight were tornado related. Two tornadoes—both in Illinois and rated EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale—were the strongest documented during the outbreak and combined for five deaths. In addition to tornadoes, the system associated with the outbreak produced sizeable hail peaking at 4.00 in (10.2 cm) in diameter in Bloomington, Illinois, as well as damaging winds estimated as strong as 100 mph (160 km/h) in three locations.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]