Crashing Without a Cushion
When it comes to concussions and their lasting effects, Nascar drivers are largely on their own, though a new coalition of top teams may represent hope for help.
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When it comes to concussions and their lasting effects, Nascar drivers are largely on their own, though a new coalition of top teams may represent hope for help.
Companies like Addepar are using data-filtering techniques honed at spy agencies to help track and value clients’ diverse holdings.
The suspension of the ESPN host Stephen A. Smith for comments relating to domestic violence and the Ray Rice case exemplifies how opinions intended to prompt public reaction can backfire.
In Washington State, where scientists say a rise in carbon levels is killing shellfish, Gov. Jay Inslee is working to pass climate change policies, aided by a billionaire friend.
An examination of the system’s problems reveals an investment strategy that has failed to keep up with growing costs, and a governing structure that often permits politics to intrude.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 2014, covering August 4, 2014.
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2014James Brady, American activist and politician, 15th White House Press Secretary (born 1940)[†]
James Scott Brady was an American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the 17th White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan. In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Brady during Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which occurred two months and ten days after Reagan's inauguration.
2014Chester Crandell, American lawyer and politician (born 1946)[†]
Chester J. Crandell was an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate representing District 6 since January 14, 2013. Crandell served consecutively in the Arizona State Legislature from January 10, 2011, until January 14, 2013, in the Arizona House of Representatives District 5 seat.
2014Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (born 1953)[†]
Jerry Mamberg, often known as Jake Hooker, Jake Richards, or Jake Falsworth, was a musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock/pop band Arrows.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]