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Ethical Electric, a start-up founded by a former Washington political operative, allows customers to sign up for electricity from renewable sources.
United States Special Operations troops are forming elite units in Libya, Niger, Mauritania and Mali in the war against Al Qaeda’s affiliates in Africa.
Guilt, doubt and blame have plagued the people touched by a General Motors ignition switch defect that has killed 13 people.
The general contractor that helped oversee the construction of the Abu Dhabi campus is run by a trustee of N.Y.U.’s board.
Teachers, lawmakers and parents from the left and right are banding together to fight against new high-stakes standardized tests and other hot-button policies in public education.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 21, 2014, covering May 27, 2014.
Various Artists
Soundtrack
Hunter Hayes
Sarah McLachlan
Tech N9ne Collabos
2014Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author (born 1936)[†]
Robert Douglas Genn was a Canadian artist, who gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. He ran a painters' website, which sends out twice weekly newsletters to 135,000 artists. In 2005, Genn campaigned against the Chinese website arch-world.com, which was selling thousands of high-resolution images of around 2,800 artists' work illegally without permission. He succeeded to an extent.
2014Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1940)[†]
Helma Sanders-Brahms was a German film director, screenwriter and producer.
2014Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)[†]
Roberto Enrique Vargas Vélez was a pitcher in Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball. Vargas played for the Chicago American Giants for one season in 1948, in which he was named a Negro League All-Star. He also played one season for the Milwaukee Braves of the National League during the 1955 season. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
2014Massimo Vignelli, Italian-American graphic designer (born 1931)[†]
Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer who worked in several areas, including packaging, housewares, furniture, public signage, and showroom design. He worked within the modernist tradition, emphasizing simplicity by using basic geometric shapes. He co-founded Vignelli Associates with his wife, Lella.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]