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Interviews with users and treatment experts suggest a growing number of young American workers are taking stimulants to enhance concentration and stamina at work.
A ship carrying as many as 700 people sank in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, adding to the rising death toll in what has become a migration crisis for Europe.
Even with a millennial ambassador like Miley Cyrus onstage, the ceremony was about holding up — and keeping a tight grip on — consensus icons of the art form, like the late Lou Reed.
The hope is to give oncologists a tool to let them figure out quickly whether a treatment is working and, if it is, to keep monitoring for resistance.
While the overwhelming majority of the responses on social media and elsewhere were positive, there were also a number of people who expressed doubts.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 15, 2015, covering April 19, 2015.
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2015Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (born 1919)[†]
Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr was an English historian specialising in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden. From 1968 to 1987, he was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford.
2015Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (born 1924)[†]
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley,, was a British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister who was Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]