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A review of the recent men’s wear shows in Paris, including Givenchy, Berluti, Dior Homme, Hermès and more.
As institutions look for ways to fight climate change, the College of the Atlantic has made the search for solutions a central part of its curriculum.
Though labor welcomed President Obama’s action, observers said wage stagnation is the bigger problem.
A confluence of factors built up the island’s debt: tax exemption, the use of bonds to plug budget holes, and supposed ironclad guarantees.
Hedge funds see the governor’s call for debt restructuring as more of an opening salvo in a negotiation than an indication of imminent defaults.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 1, 2015, covering July 1, 2015.
James Taylor
Taylor Swift
Adam Lambert
Ed Sheeran
Hilary Duff
2015Val Doonican, Irish singer and television host (born 1927)[†]
Michael Valentine 'Val' Doonican was an Irish singer of traditional pop, easy listening and novelty songs, noted for his warm and relaxed vocal style.
2015Czesław Olech, Polish mathematician and academic (born 1931)[†]
Czesław Olech was a Polish mathematician. He was a representative of the Kraków school of mathematics, especially the differential equations school of Tadeusz Ważewski.
2015Nicholas Winton, English lieutenant and humanitarian (born 1909)[†]
Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had immigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton assisted in the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. On a brief visit to Czechoslovakia, he helped compile a list of children in danger and, returning to Britain, he worked to fulfill the legal requirements of bringing the children to Britain and finding homes and sponsors for them. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]