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The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project has gone nowhere, even though Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, agree it is essential and overdue.
Government protections are helping Asian elephant numbers rise, but forests are rapidly giving way to rubber and other cash crops.
As businesses, particularly in the energy sector, campaign to maintain ties with Moscow, the world’s seven wealthiest nations said on Friday that they would impose additional sanctions on Russia resulting from its military action in Ukraine.
A Queens resident with a spare bedroom has rented it out over the past 10 months to scores of guests, taking in almost $18,000.
Sales of commercially prepared baby food have been steadily falling since 2005 as parents take a do-it-yourself approach.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 23, 2014, covering April 26, 2014.
Soundtrack
Pharrell Williams
5 Seconds of Summer
MercyMe
Black Label Society
2014Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (born 1936)[†]
Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964, he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK). As part of Physical Review Letters' 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history. While widely considered to have authored the most complete of the early papers on the Higgs theory, GHK were controversially not included in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.
2014Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (born 1927)[†]
Paul Leroy Robeson Jr. was an American author, archivist and historian.
2014DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (born 1979)[†]
Rashad Hanif Harden, known as DJ Rashad, was a Chicago-based electronic musician, producer and DJ known as a pioneer in the footwork genre and founder of the Teklife crew. He released his debut studio album Double Cup on Hyperdub in 2013 to critical praise. He died in April 2014 from a drug overdose.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]