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Two companies are asking the Food and Drug Administration for approval to market tablets or liquids to treat allergies, drugs which are already available in Europe.
Conservative House Republicans are likely to balk at the deal, and Democrats have not said whether they will make their support contingent on an extension of jobless benefits.
Stockton has gone through what Detroit faces and hopes to emerge from bankruptcy protection in the spring. But its biggest problem, pension payments, still looms.
“What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined,” a musical revue at New York Theater Workshop, digs into the melancholy in many of the hits that Mr. Bacharach wrote with Hal David.
A big part of the American auto industry’s comeback has come from rising exports of vehicles made in the United States for sale in international markets.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 2013, covering December 6, 2013.
Eminem
Five Finger Death Punch
Various Artists
The Robertsons
Soundtrack
2013Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French poet and critic (born 1939)[†]
Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers was a French writer and poet. He was born on 22 October 1939 in Versailles and died on 6 December 2013.
2013Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (born 1926)[†]
Stanley William Tracey was a British jazz pianist and composer, whose most important influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Tracey's best known recording is the 1965 album Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood", which is based on the BBC radio drama Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas.
2013M. K. Turk, American basketball player and coach (born 1942)[†]
M. K. Turk was an American college basketball player and coach.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]