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Tanning salons dot strip malls across the country, promising prettiness and, in some cases, better health, despite a growing body of evidence that links indoor tanning to skin cancer.
In a tense game with frequent grappling and sneering after the whistle, Tom Brady led a rally with help from a receiver’s pass in New England’s win over Baltimore in the divisional playoff game.
Robert Stone, who died on Saturday at 77, explored the underside of American life in books populated with pilgrims, agitators and crackpots in search of salvation, or what he called “the numinous.”
More than one million people marched through the French capital with world leaders, who linked arms, in a defiant rally after deadly terrorist attacks.
In “Kansas City Choir Boy,” starring Courtney Love and Todd Almond at HERE Arts Center, a musician reflects painfully on a former relationship.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 7, 2015, covering January 11, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Nicki Minaj
Pentatonix
One Direction
Sam Smith
2015Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer and coach (born 1925)[†]
Jenő Buzánszky was a Hungarian football player and coach. He played as a right back for Hungary and during the 1950s he was a member of the legendary squad known as the Golden Team. Other members of the team included Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis, József Bozsik and Nándor Hidegkuti. He was the only member of the team not to play for either Honvéd or MTK Hungária FC. After 274 league games he retired as a player and became a coach. In 1996, he became a deputy chairman of the Hungarian Football Federation.
2015Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress (born 1931)[†]
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was a Swedish actress active in American and European films, known for her beauty and curvaceous figure. She became prominent in her iconic role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita (1960). Ekberg worked primarily in Italy, where she became a permanent resident in 1964.
2015Chashi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi director and producer (born 1941)[†]
Chashi Nazrul Islam was a Bangladeshi film director and producer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director twice for the films Shuvoda in 1986 and Hangor Nodi Grenade in 1997. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2004 by the Government of Bangladesh.
2015Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, American neuroscientist and academic (born 1918)[†]
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]