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When police officers shoot people under questionable circumstances, William J. Lewinski often appears as an expert witness who says they had no choice but to fire.
The rules are meant to sharply cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and ultimately transform America’s electricity industry.
Chinese textile manufacturers drawn by cheap cotton, falling labor costs and government incentives are helping revive depressed mill towns in the American South.
Mr. Piketty follows up “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” last year’s landmark economic analysis, with a slightly revised version of a book he wrote in 1997.
More than 60 percent of Puerto Ricans receive Medicare or Medicaid, but planned cuts to a program and the loss of doctors to the mainland are raising fears that the system is near collapsing.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 2015, covering August 2, 2015.
Tyrese
Taylor Swift
Meek Mill
Kidz Bop Kids
Ed Sheeran
2015Forrest Bird, American pilot and engineer (born 1921)[†]
Forrest Morton Bird was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer. He is best known for having created some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary care.
2015Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1922)[†]
Giovanni Battista Conso was an Italian jurist who served on the Constitutional Court of Italy for nine years beginning in 1982, and has served as President of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1989 until his death in 2015.
2015Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (born 1936)[†]
Piet Fransen was a Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder.
2015Jack Spring, American baseball player (born 1933)[†]
Jack Russell Spring was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher. The 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 175 lb (79 kg) left-hander played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1955), Boston Red Sox (1957), Washington Senators (1958), Los Angeles Angels (1961–64), Chicago Cubs (1964), St. Louis Cardinals (1964), and Cleveland Indians (1965).
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]