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For years, general managers at baseball’s winter meetings made trades in hushed hotel lobbies, but deals now usually take place away from frenzied gatherings of fans, scouts, reporters and agents.
Half of the 20 doctors who received the most money from Genentech to promote its drug Lucentis in 2013 were among the highest users of the drug in 2012, a federal database shows.
After The Washington Post raised doubts on its story of rape at the University of Virginia, Rolling Stone is weighing how to report on people who have suffered violence or trauma.
Chris Hughes, a Facebook founder, purchased The New Republic magazine in 2012 praising its journalistic history, but recent decisions there have led to a walkout by several staff members.
Perhaps because of an N.C.A.A. rule that a conference must have 12 teams to stage a championship game, the Big 12 is the only one of the Big 5 conferences not to earn a berth in the inaugural College Football Playoff.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 3, 2014, covering December 8, 2014.
One Direction
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Nickelback
Garth Brooks
2014Tom Gosnell, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1951)[†]
Thomas Charles Gosnell, commonly called "Tom", was a mayor of London, Ontario, Canada from December 1, 1985, to December 1, 1994. He is the son of James Fredrick Gosnell, known as "Fred", who was the mayor of London, Ontario, Canada briefly in 1972. Gosnell was London City Council's deputy mayor and budget chief from 2003 to 2010. Gosnell died at his home in London of cancer in 2014.
2014Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (born 1930)[†]
Russell Paul Kemmerer was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox (1954–1957), the Washington Senators (1957–1960), the Chicago White Sox (1960–1962), and the Houston Colt .45s (1962–1963) to finish his career.
2014Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist and composer (born 1915)[†]
Knut Nystedt was a Norwegian orchestral and choral composer.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]