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Standard General, which will take over 1,700 of the 4,000 RadioShack stores, said that eliminating the retailerâs heavy cost structure and some old business practices left a core worth saving.
New fitness tests are in part a response to increasing concerns of senior F.B.I. officials about the toll on agents after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
School administrators say for online learning to be legitimate, testing has to be monitored. Proctortrack is a new anti-cheating program being used by some universities.
The former Communist nation has completed 20 miles of fence along its border with Turkey, and plans to extend it to 100 miles, to stem the flow of refugees.
Even as the worst drought in decades ravages California, millions of pounds of thirsty crops continue to stream out of the state, a feat that is a case study in the unwise use of natural resources, many experts say.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 2015, covering April 6, 2015.
Kendrick Lamar
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Modest Mouse
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Taylor Swift
2015Giovanni Berlinguer, Italian lawyer and politician (born 1924)[â ]
Giovanni Berlinguer was an Italian politician, humanist, and professor of social medicine.
2015James Best, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926)[â ]
Jewel Franklin Guy, known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, Best was known for his high-pitched, exasperated voice, who performed not only in feature films, but also in scores of television series, his appearances were almost all on Western programs, as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk shows. He played Captain Thorne Sherman in both The Killer Shrews (1959) and its spin-off, Return of the Killer Shrews (2012). Television audiences, however, perhaps most closely associate Best with his starring role as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard, which originally aired on CBS between 1979 and 1985. He reprised the role in 1997 and 2000 for the made-for-television movies The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! and The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000).
2015Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1918)[â ]
Ray Charles was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television shows for 35 years and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s and 1960s for the MGM, Essex, Decca and Command labels.
2015Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929)[â ]
Joseph Dollard Herve St. Laurent was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]