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February 7, 2014

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Headlines from February 7, 2014

Skating Close to the Edge, Again, on the Debt Ceiling

By Annie Lowrey

There’s less congressional appetite for brinkmanship this time, but the government has only a few weeks’ worth of cash left.

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Long-Haul Expansion by a Norwegian Carrier Upsets U.S. Airlines

By Jad Mouawad

American labor groups, airlines and pilots say Norwegian Air Shuttle’s expansion plans take unfair advantage of a U.S.-Europe open-skies agreement.

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Past Fictions, a Lack of Trust and No Deal in SAC Case

By James B. Stewart

Mathew Martoma seemed to be able to cut a deal with prosecutors, but his handling of a years-old episode involving fabrication of documents casts doubt on his trustworthiness, James B. Stewart writes in the Common Sense column.

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On Blog, an Ex-Christie Ally Showed Approach to Politics

By Kate Zernike

David Wildstein is now the wild card in the scandal surrounding Gov. Chris Christie and the revenge-closings of lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge in September.

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If You Stage It, They Will Come

By Charles Isherwood

Eric Simonson’s “Bronx Bombers,” at Circle in the Square Theater, focuses on Yogi Berra and the 1977 New York Yankees, then brings in stars of other eras as well.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 5, 2014, covering February 7, 2014.

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Frozen
Soundtrack
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Peak
1
Weeks
9
2
2014 Grammy Nominees
Various Artists
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Peak
2
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3
Is There Anybody Out There?
A Great Big World
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Peak
3
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1
4
Beyonce
Beyonce
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Peak
1
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7
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Pure Heroine
Lorde
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Peak
3
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17

Notable Deaths

2014Doug Mohns, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1933)^[†]

Douglas Allen "Diesel" Mohns was a professional ice hockey player who played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1953–54 until 1974–75. Mohns twice won the most coveted prize in junior hockey, the Memorial Cup. He played on the 1951 and 1953 Barrie Flyers teams.

Historical Events

2014Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.^[†]

The Happisburgh footprints were a set of fossilized hominid footprints that date to the end of the Early Pleistocene, around 850–950,000 years ago. They were discovered in May 2013 in a newly uncovered sediment layer of the Cromer Forest Bed on a beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, England, and carefully photographed in 3D before being destroyed by the tide shortly afterwards.

Historical Context for February 7, 2014

In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people^[†]

Headlines from February 7, 2014

Skating Close to the Edge, Again, on the Debt Ceiling

Long-Haul Expansion by a Norwegian Carrier Upsets U.S. Airlines

Past Fictions, a Lack of Trust and No Deal in SAC Case

On Blog, an Ex-Christie Ally Showed Approach to Politics

If You Stage It, They Will Come

Frozen

2014 Grammy Nominees

Is There Anybody Out There?

Beyonce

Pure Heroine

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for February 7, 2014