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The Service Employees International Union is trying to organize service workers at the 22 hospitals in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in an effort to raise their salaries.
Demand is growing from younger consumers seeking a more healthful or more ethical diet, but innovation is pushed by investors who see a potential solution to big problems.
Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into a recent $400 million fraud involving Citigroup’s Mexican unit, according to people briefed on the matter, one of a handful of government inquiries looming over the bank.
Seizing on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s missteps, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was a behind-the-scenes force in giving New York City charter schools some of the most sweeping protections in the nation.
Short-term unemployment has fallen to its prerecession level, but long-term unemployment remains more than twice as high as it was in 2007.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 2014, covering April 3, 2014.
Soundtrack
YG
Foster the People
Skrillex
The Pretty Reckless
2014Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (born 1935)[†]
Régine Deforges was a French author, editor, director, and playwright. Her book La Bicyclette bleue was the most popular book in France in 2000 and it was known by some to be offensive and to others for its plagiarism, neither of which was proved.
2014Fred Kida, American illustrator (born 1920)[†]
Fred Kida was a Japanese-American comic book and comic strip artist best known for the 1940s aviator hero Airboy and his antagonist and sometime ally Valkyrie during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. He went on to draw for Marvel Comics' 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, in a variety of genres and styles, and then again for Marvel superhero titles in the 1970s. He drew the company's The Amazing Spider-Man newspaper comic strip during the early to mid-1980s. Kida also assisted artist Dan Barry on the long-running strip Flash Gordon from 1958 to 1961 and then again from 1968 to 1971.
2014Prince Michael of Prussia (born 1940)[†]
Wilhelm Heinrich Michael Louis Ferdinand Friedrich Franz Wladimir Prinz von Preussen was a descendant of the Hohenzollern dynasty which ruled Germany until the end of World War I. His great-grandfather Wilhelm II was the German Emperor and King of Prussia until 1918. Although Kaiser Wilhelm died in exile and his family was stripped of much of its wealth and recognition of its rank and titles by the German Republic, Michael spent nearly all of his life in Germany.
2014Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (born 1936)[†]
Jovan Pavlović was a Serbian Orthodox prelate who was the metropolitan bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1982 until his death in 2014. He was one of the most prominent individuals in Serbian community in Croatia during his lifetime.
2014Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (born 1921)[†]
Arthur Smith was an American musician, composer, and record producer, as well as a radio and TV host. He produced radio and TV shows; The Arthur Smith Show was the first nationally syndicated country music show on television. After moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, Smith developed and ran the first commercial recording studio in the Southeast.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]