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In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
2014Bob Casale, American guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (born 1952)[†]
Robert Edward Casale Jr., or "Bob 2", was an American musician, composer and record producer. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the rhythm guitarist and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, which released a Top 20 hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It". The band has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. He was the younger brother of their co-founder and bass guitarist Gerald Casale.
2014Peter Florin, German politician and diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (born 1921)[†]
Peter Florin was an East German politician and diplomat.
2014Wayne Smith, Jamaican singer (born 1965)[†]
Wayne Smith was a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician best known for his 1985 hit "Under Me Sleng Teng", which is regarded as the track which initiated the digital era of reggae.
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Party leaders have urged Democratic candidates to talk openly about the health care law’s problems while also offering their own prescriptions to fix them.
The newest chorus of complaints about the common learning standards is coming from one of their earliest champions: New York State.
Many young Egyptians say the government’s heavy-handed reaction to protests has hampered their ability to establish a role in shaping the nation’s future.
With the Time Warner Cable deal, Comcast would not only lock up 30 percent of the cable market, but pricing leverage in all directions — with customers, networks and over-the-web providers like Netflix.
For the near-medalists — and a few not-so-near-medalists — left looking up at the podium, recognition comes in the form of a personally inscribed, autopen-signed, formal Olympic diploma.
The studio where Jimmy Fallon will hold court is the same one that Johnny Carson reigned over before he left for California in May 1972, and that Jack Paar filled before him.
Brian Krebs’s widely read blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals who make billions off spam, malware and frauds.
Mark Mulder, who last pitched in the majors in 2008, hoped to return with the Angels this season, but he tore an Achilles’ tendon Saturday in camp.
If there is a rivalry between the two, it is by many measures a mismatch. But that hasn’t stopped the salivation at the story line: Netflix, the Silicon Valley interloper, taking on HBO, the establishment player.
Changing economics and tastes in Britain have claimed roughly one out of every five “locals” in the last 20 years.
It’s akin to hockey’s penalty box, but a better comparison for the biathlon’s penalty loop might be basketball players doing push-ups for each missed shot in a game.
A project developed by WaterFX, a start-up in drought-stricken California, exploits two things the Central Valley possesses in abundance — fallow land and sunshine — to cut desalinization costs.