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In recruiting programmers from elite universities, Wall Street runs up against the idea that Silicon Valley is the technological promised land.
The Doryen family, unbowed survivors of Liberia’s civil war, saw seven members die from the virus in a matter of months and lost its sense of unity.
Interviews with employees and documents turned over to Congress reveal a midlevel engineer who tried to satisfy orders for a smoothly functioning switch that would help G.M. improve the image of its cut-rate small cars.
Following deep losses in the midterm elections, President Obama has flexed his muscles on climate change, immigration and Internet neutrality.
The story of one writer’s path from idea to network series candidate.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 2014, covering November 14, 2014.
Taylor Swift
Various Artists
Sam Hunt
Barry Manilow
Jason Aldean
2014Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (born 1924)[†]
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him.
2014Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (born 1937)[†]
Glen Albert Larson was an American television producer, writer, and composer. He created many series, including Alias Smith and Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Quincy, M.E., The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, B. J. and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Magnum, P.I., and Knight Rider. Active on television until the early 2010s, he was also a member of the folk revival/satire group The Four Preps.
2014Morteza Pashaei, Iranian singer-songwriter (born 1984)[†]
Morteza Pashaei Morteza Pashaei was an Iranian pop singer, musician, and composer.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]