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Mr. Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Three Tall Women,” among other dramas, charted the contentiousness of intimacy and the gap between self-delusion and truth in contemporary life.
The plight of a tiny local retirement fund in California shows how some public pension plans are far less funded than their official numbers suggest.
Two Silicon Valley veterans have been helping Stanford students navigate the future through their popular courses. Now they want to help you.
The senator and the actress reflect on the coming election, family dynamics and road maps for social change.
Sixty-four people were shot in the city over Memorial Day weekend; 6 died. The 58 survivors, including Precious Land, were mostly left to languish in anonymity.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 14, 2016, covering September 17, 2016.
Barbra Streisand
Florida Georgia Line
Britney Spears
Drake
Frank Ocean
2016Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian racing cyclist (born 1968)[†]
Bahman Golbarnezhad was an Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist competing in C4 classification events and an earlier powerlifter. During his powerlifting career, he won twelve gold medals and one silver medal in international competitions. Golbarnezhad had represented Iran in two Summer Paralympic Games, first in 2012 in London and later in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. He was the only Iranian cyclist at the 2016 Paralympics. He was a veteran of the Iran–Iraq war.
2016Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (born 1936)[†]
Sigvard Emanuel "Sigge" Parling was a Swedish footballer. He also played ice hockey and bandy.
2016Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.[†]
On September 17–19, 2016, a series of three constructed bombs exploded and several unexploded devices were discovered in the New York metropolitan area after a shooting in Linden, New Jersey, sparked a manhunt. The bombings and additional shootout left 33 people wounded, but no fatalities were reported. Federal investigators determined these explosive devices were deliberately set and identified them as part of a terrorist act.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]