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As sales of personal computers continue to slump, PC makers are having to innovate, and, in many ways, Microsoft is leading the way — even lending to the industry’s budding optimism.
President Obama is unwilling to risk escalating the conflict and does not have a new strategy to resolve it or defeat the Islamic State.
Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell tear up the scenery (and each other) in Daniel Aukin’s definitive revival of Sam Shepard’s drama.
The opening of Chick-fil-A in Manhattan brought out protesters opposed to the company’s politics, but things are never as clear cut as they seem.
A route to Norway through Russia has made a remote far-north border an increasingly popular back door into Europe. A legal quirk makes pedaling necessary.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 7, 2015, covering October 9, 2015.
Drake & Future
Lana Del Rey
The Weeknd
Mac Miller
David Gilmour
2015Ray Duncan, American businessman (born 1930)[†]
Raymond Twomey Duncan known as Ray Duncan was an American entrepreneur and vintner. Originally involved in oil entrepreneurship in Colorado and founder of Duncan Oil, he was the founder along with Justin Meyer of Silver Oak Cellars in 1972, a successful winery based in the Napa Valley and Alexander Valley. Today his sons David Duncan and Tim Duncan run Silver Oak Cellars, as well as Twomey Cellars. Duncan established the Durango Mountain "Purgatory" Ski Resort in 1965 and was chairman of the board for the ski industry organization Colorado Ski Country USA. He was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2006.
2015Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)[†]
Richard Frederick Heck was an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. The analgesic naproxen is an example of a compound that is prepared industrially using the Heck reaction.
2015Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1926)[†]
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon,, known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of chancellor of the Exchequer, foreign secretary, and finally leader of the House of Commons, deputy prime minister and Lord President of the Council. His resignation on 1 November 1990 is widely considered to have precipitated the leadership challenge that led to Thatcher's resignation three weeks later.
2015Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (born 1944)[†]
Ravindra Jain was an Indian music composer, lyricist and playback singer. He started his career in the early 1970s by composing for several hit movies. His notable works include Chor Machaye Shor (1974), Geet Gaata Chal (1975), Chitchor (1976) and Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (1978), Nadiya Ke Paar (1982), Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) and Vivah (2006). He composed music for many films and TV shows including Ramanand Sagar's epic Ramayan (1987), which became iconic. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India in 2015 for his contribution to arts.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]