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Washington (CNN)-- The killing of Osama bin Laden was voted the top story of the year by the Religion Newswriters Association, beating out Rep. Peter King's hearing on the radicalization of U.S. Muslims and Catholic Bishop Robert Finn's failure to report the suspected abuse of a child.

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The combination of Musk's renown, stories comparing Tesla's acceleration to a Ferrari's, and intrigue over the new technology sent preorders above 5,000 by the end of the year.

A way for users to collect and share photos and videos related to an event or a theme, Stories is also similar to a feature launched by Facebook - owned Instagram earlier this year, when co-founder Kevin Systrom admitted it was a virtual carbon copy of Snapchat's feature, right down to the name.

Yes, the year's biggest story was Serena Williams and her push to become the fourth woman ever to complete a calendar grand slam (win all four of the sport's Majors in one year) by winning this Open — a push that ended Friday in a crushing defeat that did not take away from the achievement of how close she came.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

But the REAL private dining experience is downstairs in the wine cellar: legend has it that Edgar Allan Poe used to visit, and was inspired by the 200 - year - old wine cellar for his story «The Cask of Amontillado.»

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double - dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

Two journalists, Dawn Gilbertson and Jonathan J. Higuera, writing in the Arizona Republic at the ten year anniversary of NAFTA, summed things up this way: «The Reality of NAFTA at 10 is this: a still - developing story of winners and losers, split largely by where you work and what you make.»

We not only rallied going into the close of the year, the rally at the start of the year has taken everyone by surprise, far surpassing the typical first - day putting - money - to - work story.

Instagram's Stories could well surpass Snapchat in active users by the middle of the year, while Facebook is already testing similar Story - like features for its Messenger and Facebook platforms.

The movie is a love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer - director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune contributor Heidi Hartmann, an economist, MacArthur Fellow, and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, who reports that the gender pay gap hit a record low last year.

There's the classic 1989 interview with Steve Jobs, the story that introduced the world to open book management, and a blow - by - blow of Nike's early years, circa 1981.

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

Gates has also included his favorite novel of the year, The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simison, which is a love story.

Apocalypse now: survivalist companies reborn The story of B&A Products, a company founded nearly seven years ago by Byron Kirkwood and his wife, Annie, is intertwined with the coming millennium.

He's referring here to his wife Betsy, a financial planner for years, a remarkable partner and supporter, and by some accounts, the unsung hero of the Bulleit success story.

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

Wired has the bizarre story of Andre Vrignaud, a 39 - year - old gaming consultant in Seattle, whose Internet was taken away by his provider for using too much data.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

ViralNova, a Buzzfeed - like media startup chock full of feel - good stories, was bought this year by digital - media company Zealot Networks in a cash - and - stock deal that could be worth as much as $ 100 million if Zealot appreciates in value.

However, if we realize that we have 250 years of industrialization to teach us that eventually, the power - hungry machines that have only few functions are being replaced by ones that can multi-task at very low levels of energy consumption, then the psychopath might realize the moral story that lies beneath.

Again Taylor offered a cautious outlook, though it was largely ignored in stories about the «green» budget with its centre piece carbon tax that will raise the price of gas by a couple cents a litre this year.

At one level, most of these businesses appear to be success stories: On average, these companies grew profits in their developing market subsidiaries by 15 % a year from 2005 to 2010, more than twice the profit growth rate in the rest of the business.

Villar has been unable to find several of the medications needed to treat his wife's multiple sclerosis in Venezuela for the last two years, a story not uncommon in a country whose public health system has been crippled by shortages.

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Long story short, with 2009 under my belt as a bounded tentpole of a worse case real world experiment, I envisage a 1 - year bonded income equivalent tranche of emergency funds backed by a 2 - yr income equivalent tranche dividend fund (Vanguard's low - cost dividend growth, for ex.).

Now the 89 - year - old, the Academy's second oldest nominee (eight days younger than Faces Places director Agnès Varda), seems to have a clear shot at his first win for his gentle and poignant treatment of André Aciman's love story Call Me by Your Name.

Instagram's Stories could well surpass Snapchat in active users by the middle of the year, and Facebook is already testing similar, Story - like features for its Messenger and Facebook platforms.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's seemingly sudden dismissal by President Donald Trump comes after a year of constant stories about his impending departure.

The story of this nine - year bull market is a story of extreme market intervention by central bankers.

-- 1968, The Year That Rocked the World, by Mark Kurlansky, which tells the story of the Vietnam protests and the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

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Dell Technologies, another growth - by - acquisition story, also was expected to dart up the ranks of the CT 100 this year.

Right out of the story of Joseph in Genesis, Wall Street is worried that these seven years of «plenty» will be followed by seven years of relative «famine».

You might recall a series of stories I wrote nearly two years ago about «drive - by» modem upgrades that Comcast was -LSB-...]

No God wrote any bible as the bible is simply a book of compiled stories written by people and the bible was actually written 300 years after the birth of Jesus (if he was) and the reality is most American ministers, priest, etc could have never read the first bible since it was written in Greek and changed over, and over, and over again.

From Uganda, the site of the ICC's prosecutorial experiments, comes the story of Charlotte, abducted from her Catholic boarding school by the LRA in 1996 when she was thirteen years old.

Doctors haven't given an actual prognosis yet and are urging caution, but the Reyna family has been encouraged by the story of Kali Hardig, a 12 - year - old in Arkansas who recently became only the third known survivor of this infection (generally, it has a fatality rate of well over 99 %).

All the 4 apostle's gospels were written in Greek, some say 60 years later by one Greek and after 100s of years more stories were added and integrated with Paganism.

That could be the new motto of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, a plea for an end to the constant drumbeat of stories related to years and years of sexual abuse against boys by priests.

The story of Abraham was told by word of mouth for 900 years before it was ever put on paper.

The story of JC was told by word of mouth for more than 40 years before it was ever written down.

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