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The start-up Planet Labs is challenging the giants of the space industry by producing dozens of small satellites that are cheaper and quicker to build than traditional satellites.
Arizona, Wichita State and Virginia joined the Gators as top seeds in a draw heavy on legacy conference teams.
The explosive growth of cities is raising the stakes for farmers and industry amid a series of fierce legal and political battles over water.
Andrew Wiggins, the Big 12 freshman of the year, has propped the Jayhawks on his slender shoulders with Joel Embiid, a lithe 7-footer from Cameroon, out indefinitely with a stress fracture in his back.
The operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has left the complex cleanup to a poorly trained work force that has made some dangerous missteps.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 2014, covering March 17, 2014.
ScHoolboy Q
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Beck
Kid Cudi
Romeo Santos
2014Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (born 1974)[†]
Marek Galiński was a Polish professional mountain biker and road racing cyclist. During his sporting career, he won nine Polish national championship titles and a silver medal in men's cross-country racing at the 2003 UCI World Cup series in Sankt Wendel, Germany. Galinski also represented his nation Poland in four editions of the Olympic Games, where he competed in men's mountain biking from the time that it officially became an Olympic sport in 1996. Galinski raced professionally for more than five seasons on the JBG2 Professional MTB Team. After his retirement from the sport in 2011, Galinski worked as an assistant coach of both Polish and Russian mountain bike national teams. Upon his return from a training camp in Cyprus on 17 March 2014, Galinski was suddenly killed in a car accident near Jędrzejów.
2014Joseph Kerman, American musicologist and critic (born 1924)[†]
Joseph Wilfred Kerman was an American musicologist and music critic. Among the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field". He was Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of California, Berkeley.
2014Rachel Lambert Mellon, American gardener, philanthropist, art collector and political patron (born 1910)[†]
Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books. Mellon was the second wife of philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]