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Wall Street has always thrived, in part, on its eat-or-be-eaten culture. Would curbing its competitive nature cut into its success?
Homicides by gunfire, seen as a key measure of preventable violence, are up steeply this year — of the 135 killings through May, 98 involved a gun.
Many insurers say they are asking for higher premiums because they remain unsure about the future and what their medical costs will be.
Even if Congress restricts domestic surveillance, the counterterrorism infrastructure built in recent years has become firmly embedded in society.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece is under mounting pressures from many sides, and European leaders hope to help his cash-starved country swiftly meet its financial obligations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 27, 2015, covering June 2, 2015.
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Mumford & Sons
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David Guetta
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2015Fernando de Araújo, East Timorese politician, President of East Timor (born 1963)[†]
Fernando de Araújo, also known as Lasama was an East Timorese activist and politician. He was a clandestine activist for the independence of East Timor, and then founded the Democratic Party after independence. He was President of the National Parliament of East Timor from 2007 to 2012. He also served as the Acting President for two months in early 2008.
2015Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)[†]
Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]