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A former Takata airbag engineer testified that the company’s airbags began rupturing in internal testing as many as 16 years ago.
Mr. Dickerson, the host of “Face the Nation,” could face his biggest audience yet when he moderates the Republican debate in South Carolina.
Randall Stephenson, the chief, sees a need to retrain his 280,000 employees — like his older brother, who fixes the lines — to compete with the likes of Google.
For 30 years, especially during Oscars season, the power publicist Peggy Siegal has played matchmaker between Hollywood moguls and New York taste makers.
The tenor Roberto Alagna, called at the last minute by the Metropolitan Opera, gave an ardent, impassioned performance as des Grieux, a student unlucky in love.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 10, 2016, covering February 13, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Megadeth
Twenty One Pilots
Panic! At The Disco
2016O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (born 1931)[†]
Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup was a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. He received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma Vibhushan in 2011, the fourth and second highest civilian honours from the Government of India. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by University of Kerala, Trivandrum. O. N. V. was known for his leftist leaning. He was a leader of All India Students Federation (AISF). He died on 13 February 2016 at KIMS hospital in Thiruvananthapuram due to age-related illnesses, aged 84.
2016Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936)[†]
Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]