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Medical identify theft has become a booming business, according to security experts, who warn that other health care companies are likely to be targets.
A new separatist offensive and the government’s push to isolate the region are intensifying problems as the fiercest winter weeks arrive on the Ukrainian steppe.
Though Jenner, a 1976 Olympic gold medalist, has not confirmed it, he is widely reported to be in the midst of making a transition from male to female.
In “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics,” David Axelrod, who guided Barack Obama to the presidency, still thinks his former boss is a winner.
Shell companies are used to shield the identities of buyers in the competition to secure condos at the Time Warner Center and other high-end buildings. This is the first installment in a five-part series.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 2015, covering February 7, 2015.
Fall Out Boy
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
Ed Sheeran
Joey Bada$$
2015Billy Casper, American golfer (born 1931)[†]
William Earl Casper Jr. was an American professional golfer. He was one of the most prolific tournament winners on the PGA Tour from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.
2015Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (born 1934)[†]
Marshall Bertram Rosenberg was an American psychologist, mediator, author and teacher. Starting in the early 1960s, he developed nonviolent communication, a process for supporting partnership and resolving conflict within people, relationships, and society. He worked worldwide as a peacemaker, and in 1984 founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international nonprofit organization for which he served as Director of Educational Services.
2015Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (born 1931)[†]
Dean Edwards Smith was an American men's college basketball head coach. Called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time.[a] Smith had the ninth-highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%). Smith's career total of 879 wins lasted until 2005 when Pat Summitt surpassed him with her 880th victory. During his tenure as head coach, North Carolina won two national championships and appeared in 11 Final Fours. Smith played college basketball at the University of Kansas, where he won a national championship in 1952 playing for Hall of fame coach Phog Allen.
2015John C. Whitehead, American banker and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of State (born 1922)[†]
John Cunningham Whitehead was an American banker and civil servant, a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, and, until his resignation in May 2006, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]