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Panasonic has reintroduced its Technics SL-1200, long prized by D.J.s, but is marketing it to a different crowd: audiophiles who won’t blink at its $2,800 price tag.
An octogenarian cracks the case of a missing prized manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger that surfaced on sale for a fraction of its value.
In a place of poverty, social ills and fractured families, Raul Mendoza, 69, coach of the Chinle, Ariz., Wildcats, is a source of quiet strength for his young players.
Their 24-6 loss to the Broncos corroborated all that they tried to dispel over the past week, after Carr’s injury ruined his superlative season.
Thousands of riders flooded into polished stations on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to witness a piece of history nearly a century in the making.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 2016, covering January 2, 2017.
J. Cole
Pentatonix
The Weeknd
Bruno Mars
Pentatonix
2017Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (born 1933)[†]
Jean Raoul Célina André Vuarnet was an alpine ski racer from France. An Olympic gold medalist, he is known for inventing the "Tuck" skiing position, and was the first Olympian to win a gold medal using metal skis. Raised in Morzine, he had a childhood interest in skiing, which he pursued. He won a bronze medal in the downhill at the World Championships in 1958 at Bad Gastein, before winning gold in the same event in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. Vuarnet was also the author of several books on skiing. He gave his name to the Vuarnet brand in 1961. In 1995, his wife Edith Bonlieu, a fellow Olympian, and their son Patrick both died in a mass murder-suicide of members of the Order of the Solar Temple.
2017John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (born 1926)[†]
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential. He lived in France for over fifty years.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]