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Federal prosecutors in six states have filed actions against businesses that buy luxury cars at domestic dealerships and then send them to China.
Court documents show that the corn refinery and sugar industries spent millions to enlist academics and lobbying groups to support a secret public relations war over the market for sweeteners.
With new apartments for families tied to the military and the interior ministry, President Raúl Castro is redoubling efforts to elevate the faithful and maintain their loyalty.
Looking to reduce energy bills and environmental strains, operators of supercomputers are immersing them in cooling liquids.
Closely watched elections are approaching in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where white working-class voters were once solidly Democratic but are now up for grabs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 12, 2014, covering February 12, 2014.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Lorde
Of Mice & Men
Beyonce
2014Sid Caesar, American actor and comedian (born 1922)[†]
Isaac Sidney Caesar was an American comic actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows (1950–1954), which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour (1954–1957), both of which influenced later generations of comedians. Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. He also acted in films; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), Cannonball Run II (1984), and Vegas Vacation (1997).
2014John Pickstone, English historian and author (born 1944)[†]
John Victor Pickstone was a British historian of science and the Wellcome Research Professor in the Centre for the History of science, Technology and Medicine, in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]