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Time Warner is joining other media conglomerates in pushing to compartmentalize their publishing units during a fragile time for the industry.
The United States is falling dangerously behind in offering high-speed, affordable broadband service, according to technology experts and recent studies.
Competitive pressures drove many of JPMorgan’s decisions to ramp up its “Sons and Daughters” hiring program, emails and documents show.
Democrats are hoping that a push to raise the federal minimum wage and a campaign to place state-level wage proposals on the ballot will help their chances in hotly contested congressional races.
At the Beef Bowl, for decades a part of teams’ Rose Bowl itineraries, the players are as likely to count calories as the pounds of meat they can eat.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 25, 2013, covering December 30, 2013.
Beyonce
Garth Brooks
Kelly Clarkson
R. Kelly
One Direction
2013Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (born 1929)[†]
Kinnaird Rowe McKee was an American United States Navy four star admiral who served as Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion from 1982 to 1988. He also served as Superintendent, United States Naval Academy from 1975 to 1978.
2013José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1934)[†]
José María Maguregui Ibarguchi was a Spanish football midfielder and coach.
2013Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)[†]
Eiichi Ohtaki was a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He first became known as a member of the rock band Happy End, but was better known for his solo work which began in 1972. In 2003, Ohtaki was ranked by HMV at number 9 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. Patrick Macias referred to Ohtaki as Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, George Martin and Joe Meek "synthesized into a single human being," and called his work "an encyclopedia of everything that was great about pop music in the 20th century."
2013Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (born 1927)[†]
John Michael Orr was an American basketball player and coach, best known as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Michigan, and at Iowa State University. In the 1975–76 season, Orr was named National Coach of the Year.
2013Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (born 1933)[†]
Paul Joseph Sally, Jr. was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he was the director of undergraduate studies for 30 years. His research areas were p-adic analysis and representation theory.
2013More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.[†]
Kinshasa, formerly named Léopoldville from 1881–1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities, with an estimated population of 17 million in 2024. It is the most densely populated city in the DRC, the most populous city and third-largest metropolitan area in Africa, and the world's twenty-second most populous city and fourth-most populous capital city. It is the leading economic, political, and cultural center of the DRC, housing several industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, banking, and entertainment. The city also hosts some of DRC's significant institutional buildings, such as the People's Palace, Palace of the Nation, Court of Cassation, Constitutional Court, African Union City, Marble Palace, Martyrs Stadium, Government House, Kinshasa Financial Center, and other national departments and agencies.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]