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With new technology, the industry has been able to produce more power at lower cost by capturing the faster winds that blow at higher elevations.
The company conducted an inquiry by reading through email and instant messages, which may violate its promise of privacy, highlighting the power technology companies have to snoop on their customers.
The airline industry has sophisticated tools to follow planes and stream data from their flight recorders. But given cost and the general safety of air travel, neither the airlines nor regulators have used them.
A new addition at Barclays Center offers a place for quiet reflection during Nets games. One question so far: What is the sound of an empty room?
The Broadway version of “Aladdin” sticks to the movie’s formula, but also infuses the conventions of the genre with a breezy insouciance that scrubs away some of the material’s bland gloss.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 2014, covering March 21, 2014.
Rick Ross
Pharrell Williams
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Lea Michele
Eli Young Band
2014Qoriniasi Bale, Fijian lawyer and politician, 25th Attorney-General of Fiji (born 1929)[†]
Qoriniasi Babitu Bale was a Fijian barrister, solicitor and politician who served twice as Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, most recently from 2001 to 2006, when he was deposed in the military coup of 5 December. Like many of Fiji's most influential leaders, Bale was a native of Levukana Village in Vanua Balavu in the Lau Islands.
2014Bill Boedeker, American football player and soldier (born 1924)[†]
William Henry Boedeker, Jr. was a halfback in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL) who played for the Chicago Rockets, the Cleveland Browns, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers.
2014Jack Fleck, American golfer (born 1921)[†]
Jackson Donald Fleck was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1955 in a playoff over Ben Hogan.
2014Simeon Oduoye, Nigerian police officer and politician (born 1945)[†]
Simeon Olasukanmi Oduoye ; 13 April 1945 – 21 March 2014) was a Nigerian police officer and administrator of Niger and Ebonyi States. He was elected senator for Osun Central in April 2007 on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform.
2014James Rebhorn, American actor (born 1948)[†]
James Robert Rebhorn was an American character actor. Rebhorn appeared in over 100 films, television series, and plays.
2014Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (born 1933)[†]
Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also known by his traditional episcopal name, Severios, he was enthroned as patriarch on 14 September 1980 in St. George's Patriarchal Cathedral in Damascus. He succeeded Ignatius Ya`qub III. As is traditional for the head of the church, Mor Severios adopted the name Ignatius.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]