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The sheer number of militant suspects combined with a widening field of potential targets have presented European officials with what they concede is a nearly insurmountable surveillance task.
Despite strong returns for its rivals, the company has seen debts mount and its stock collapse after a failed takeover bid by Robert F. X. Sillerman.
Some eight million unoccupied homes across Japan are the most visible sign of human retreat in a country where the population is forecast to fall by a third over the next 50 years.
Even some of its strongest backers say they fear that President Obama has oversold some of the deal’s virtues in blocking paths to a nuclear weapon.
As the magazine works to repair its journalistic reputation, its founder, Jann Wenner, is gradually handing the reins to his son.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 2015, covering August 24, 2015.
Soundtrack
Future
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Jill Scott
2015Charlie Coffey, American football player and coach (born 1934)[†]
Charles Edward Coffey was an American football player and coach. A native of Shelbyville, Tennessee, Coffey attended the University of Tennessee to play football for Robert Neyland. While at the University of Tennessee he played guard, lettered from 1953 to 1955 and was selected as the team captain his senior year. Coffey also maintained the highest grade average for four years of any member of the UT squad. Coffey served as the head football coach at Virginia Tech from 1971 to 1973, compiling a record of 12–20–1.
2015Joseph F. Traub, German-American computer scientist and academic (born 1932)[†]
Joseph Frederick Traub was an American computer scientist. He was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia, as well as sabbatical positions at Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, California Institute of Technology, and Technical University, Munich.
2015Justin Wilson, English racing driver (born 1978)[†]
Justin Boyd Wilson was a British professional open-wheel racing driver who competed in Formula One (F1) in 2003, the Champ Car World Series (CCWS) from 2004 to 2007 and the IndyCar Series from 2008 to 2015. He won the first Formula Palmer Audi (FPA) in 1998, the International Formula 3000 Championship (IF3000) with Nordic Racing in 2001, and co-won the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona for Michael Shank Racing.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]