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Scientists can now analyze the personal data on millions of people without their knowledge, and some want to bring ethical guidelines to such studies.
Ms. Bacall's provocative glamour elevated her to stardom in Hollywoodâs golden age, and her lasting mystique put her on a plateau in American culture that few stars reach.
Given his troubles with depression, addiction and a significant heart surgery in 2009, Mr. Williams should have had a résumé filled with mysterious gaps. Instead, he worked nonstop.
The online retailer is competing with competitors like VeriFone, PayPal and Square, but will offer a lower transaction rate to the small- and medium-size businesses it is targeting.
Celebrating the work of Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and the other composers in what Thomson called âthe Commando Squad.â
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 2014, covering August 13, 2014.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Eric Clapton & Friends
Soundtrack
5 Seconds of Summer
Shawn Mendes
2014Frans BrĂŒggen, Dutch flute player and conductor (born 1934)[â ]
Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef BrĂŒggen was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.
2014Eduardo Campos, Brazilian politician, 14th Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology (born 1965)[â ]
Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos was a Brazilian congressman and governor. Born and raised in Recife, in the Northeast Brazil, he graduated in Economics from the Recife's Federal University of Pernambuco. Campos' maternal grandfather, the governor of the Brazilian state, Pernambuco, made him his Financial Secretary. Campos became a federal congressman in Brazil and got Pernambuco federal money for a shipyard, railways and an oil refinery. Later, as Brazil's Minister for Science and Technology, he supported stem-cell research. He served two terms as governor of his home state, Pernambuco. He helped hospitals, secondary schools, wind power, farms, poor people and anti-crime data-mining. In his 2014 campaign for president of Brazil he criticized the incumbent and her Workers' Party and positioned himself as the business-friendly leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party. For outdoor rallies and local radio interviews, he criss-crossed the country by rented jet. He died on 13 August 2014, three days after his 49th birthday, when his plane crashed in poor weather in the city of Santos.
2014Martino Finotto, Italian race car driver (born 1933)[â ]
Martino Finotto was an Italian racing driver, mainly known for his success in touring car and sports car racing.
2014SĂŒleyman Seba, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1926)[â ]
SĂŒleyman Seba was a Turkish football player of Abkhazian origin and was the longest presiding chairman of the Istanbul-based multisports club BeĆiktaĆ. He was also an intelligence officer for National Intelligence Organization (Turkey) in the mission of countering communism.
2014A Cessna Citation Excel crashes in Santos, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil killing all seven people aboard, including Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate Eduardo Campos.[â ]
The Cessna Citation Excel is an American midsize business jet in the Cessna Citation family. Announced in October 1994, the Model 560XL first flew on February 29, 1996, certification was granted in April 1998, and over 1,000 have been delivered. The 2,100Â nmi-range (3,900Â km), 20,200 lb MTOW jet is powered by two 3,650â4,080Â lbf (16.2â18.1Â kN) PW545 turbofans, has the cruciform tail and unswept supercritical wing of the Citation V (560), and a slightly shortened Citation X stand-up cabin. The XLS 2004 update had upgraded engines and a glass cockpit and the 2008 XLS+ had upgraded engines and a revised nose.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]