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A government-sponsored pilot program in Ann Arbor, Mich., is exploring the benefits that occur when vehicles can talk with one another, and their surroundings.
First Investors Financial Services Group is accused of giving credit reporting agencies flawed data about thousands of car buyers.
Prosecutors are also preparing a separate civil case against Angelo Mozilo, the man who came to embody the risk-taking in subprime mortgage loans.
Questionnaires have become increasingly familiar in courtrooms, with some questions covering basic issues and others bordering on the obscure.
Ever since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black youth two Saturdays ago, this St. Louis suburb has been deeply troubled.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 20, 2014, covering August 21, 2014.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Godsmack
Spoon
5 Seconds of Summer
2014Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (born 1944)[†]
Gerard Michael Anderson was a Northern Irish radio and television broadcaster for BBC Northern Ireland. Renowned for his unique style and distinctive sense of humour, Anderson often referred to himself on his show, as "Turkey Neck", "Puppet Chin" or "Golf Mike Alpha".
2014Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (born 1925)[†]
Helen Rae Bamber OBE, née Helen Balmuth, was a British psychotherapist and human rights activist. She worked with Holocaust survivors in Germany after the concentration camps were liberated in 1945. In 1947, she returned to Britain and continued her work, helping to establish Amnesty International and later co-founding the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. In 2005, she created the Helen Bamber Foundation to help survivors of human rights violations.
2014Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1946)[†]
Steven Ray Nagel, , was an American astronaut, aeronautical and mechanical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. In total, he logged 723 hours in space. After NASA, he worked at the University of Missouri College of Engineering as an instructor in its Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department.
2014Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1937)[†]
Jean Redpath MBE was a Scottish folk singer.
2014Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, ninth Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1932)[†]
Albert Martin Reynolds was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1992 to 1994. He held various cabinet positions between 1979 and 1991, including Minister for Finance from 1988 to 1991. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Longford–Roscommon from 1977 to 1992, and for Longford–Westmeath from 1992 to 2002.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]