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The billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has a record as an activist investor that rivals call enviable, but it could be scorched by a spotlight turned harsh.
Voices inside and outside Scotland are warning of the implications of leaving the United Kingdom, even as supporters say Scotland would be better off by itself.
Jeff Francoeur and Jason Lane, veterans on the Class AAA El Paso Chihuahuas, see pitching as a way to return to the major leagues.
Before Elliot O. Rodger killed six people and took his own life in Isla Vista, Calif., his mental health and increasingly withdrawn behavior worried his parents and others.
Theater for a New Audience has revived Ionesco’s “The Killer,” in which an Everyman tries to track down the source of evil that is leaving people dead in an otherwise idyllic place.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 28, 2014, covering June 2, 2014.
The Black Keys
Michael Jackson
Various Artists
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Rascal Flatts
2014Ivica Brzić, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1941)[†]
Ivan "Ivica" Brzić was a Yugoslav and Serbian football manager and player.
2014Nikolay Khrenkov, Russian bobsledder (born 1984)[†]
Nikolay Nikolayevich Khrenkov was a Russian bobsledder.
2014Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (born 1925)[†]
Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin was an American biochemist, broad researcher of synthetic psychoactive compounds, and author of works regarding these, who independently explored the organic chemistry and pharmacology of such agents—in his mid-life and later, many through preparation in his home laboratory, and testing on himself. He is acknowledged to have introduced to broader use, in the late 1970s, the previously-synthesized compound MDMA ("ecstasy"), in research psychopharmacology and in combination with conventional therapy, the latter through presentations and academic publications, including to psychologists; and for the rediscovery, occasional discovery, and regular synthesis and personal use and distribution, of possibly hundreds of psychoactive compounds. As such, Shulgin is seen both as a pioneering and a controversial participant in the emergence of the broad use of psychedelics.
2014Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh.[†]
Telangana is a state in India situated in the south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh largest state by area and the twelfth most populated state in India, according to the 2011 census. On 2 June 2014, the area was separated from the northwestern part of United Andhra Pradesh as the newly formed state of Telangana, with Hyderabad as its capital. Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken and the primary official language of Telangana state, whereas Urdu is recognised as the second official language.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]