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After the departure of the journalist Matt Taibbi, people inside the company described a power struggle between journalists and management at the digital start-up.
Doctors say that better systems for treating fluid loss, routine in the United States, could also help patients in West Africa.
After lagging behind Democrats technologically in previous campaigns, the G.O.P. has begun using sophisticated techniques to target voters.
A tour of the Grove in Oxford, Miss., which comes alive each football weekend with one of the most elaborate pregame gatherings in the country.
All but a relative few European banks passed a recent exam regarding their soundness. But some findings in the European Central Bank’s report point to shortcomings.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 29, 2014, covering November 1, 2014.
Florida Georgia Line
Jason Aldean
Bob Seger
You+Me
Barbra Streisand
2014Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (born 1923)[†]
Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, was a Labour Party politician. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the late 1970s, he devised the Barnett Formula that allocates public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
2014Jackie Fairweather, Australian runner and coach (born 1967)[†]
Jacquilyn Louise "Jackie" Fairweather was an Australian world champion triathlete, long-distance runner, coach and Australian Institute of Sport high-performance administrator.
2014Abednigo Ngcobo, South African footballer (born 1950)[†]
Abednigo Valdez "Shaka" Ngcobo was a South African association football player who played in South Africa for Peñarol, Minnesota Kicks, Denver Dynamos and Kaizer Chiefs.
2014Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (born 1920)[†]
Jean-Pierre Roy was a Canadian pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in three games during the 1946 season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was born in Montreal, Quebec.
2014Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1965)[†]
Wayne Richard Wells, known professionally as Wayne Static, was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, and primary lyricist for the industrial metal band Static-X, of which he was the only constant member until his death in 2014. He also released a solo album, Pighammer, in 2011. Static was recognizable for his unusual hairstyle; his hair was held up in a vertical position, a process that took about 20 minutes to complete. He was also known for his signature "chintail" beard.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]