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In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]
2015Ephraim Engleman, American rheumatologist, author, and academic (born 1911)[†]
Ephraim Engleman was an American rheumatologist and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He had a major national and international impact on rheumatology during more than six decades, and wrote more than one hundred scientific and medical papers.
As benchmark crude fell by nearly 8 percent, ConocoPhillips said it was cutting its global work force by 10 percent, or 1,800 jobs.
The resignation of Deputy Mayor Lilliam Barrios-Paoli came amid a scramble by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s team to solve a persistent problem.
Many victims of the Ashley Madison extramarital affair website breach have been plunged into despair, some even to the point of contemplating suicide.
As with the Greek debt crisis, Germany once again finds itself compelled or condemned to lead by its wealth and size, and by the lack of leadership elsewhere.
Mr. Colbert (the real one, not the character) has spent the summer preparing to assume command of “The Late Show.” Will he become the Letterman successor CBS needs him to be?
Cybersecurity companies have had an easy time raising money in Silicon Valley over the last few years. But investors are starting to ask about profit and sustainability.
As Mr. Trump turns the primary into a tabloid-style clash of personalities, Mr. Bush is stuck in a race that embodies what he likes least about politics.
A message from five world powers helped persuade many Democrats to back the accord, for which President Obama now has enough votes to survive Republican opposition.
A cheap form of synthetic marijuana with vicious side effects has become popular with homeless people on 125th Street, and the block between Lexington and Park Avenues appears at times to be a street of zombies.
The Association of State Correctional Administrators said in a statement Wednesday that the policy of keeping inmates in solitary confinement needed to be limited or ended.
As the need to carry textbooks becomes less important, the backpack is being redesigned for electronics and the everyday needs of living on the go.
“Mystery Train” may be the best book ever written about rock music. Which isn’t far from saying it may be the best book ever written about being alive.