The February 17, 2013 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 47 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 13 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 105 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, February 17, 2027, in 259 days. You have lived for 4,853 days, or about 116,490 hours, or about 6,989,420 minutes, or about 419,365,200 seconds.
Date: 18 February 2013
By Kenneth Chang
Kenneth Chang
“The Week” highlights recent developments in health and science news and glances at what’s ahead. In this column: help for the blind and a gene mutation that may explain the appearance of East Asians.
Date: 17 February 2013
By Albert R. Hunt | Bloomberg News
Albert Hunt
The United States is facing massive mandatory cuts on March 1. But it is not hard to devise a feasible alternative, if irrational politics are put aside.
Date: 18 February 2013
By Marc Santora
Marc Santora
Reporting that won the journalism award included investigating the privileges of China’s ruling class, exposing and documenting the human toll in the Syrian civil war.
Date: 18 February 2013
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
The founder of Business Insider, the online news franchise, promoted a managing editor into the new position of executive editor to help handle the site’s growth.
Date: 17 February 2013
By Eric Pfanner
Eric Pfanner
The agreement allows Google to continue linking to news publishers’ Web sites without paying a fee, in exchange for $80 million in business development assistance.
Date: 17 February 2013
By John F. Burns
John Burns
A traffic violation 10 years ago has led to the political downfall of the British cabinet minister Chris Huhne and put the intimate details of his former marriage on display.
Date: 18 February 2013
By Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera
A day in the life of armed America.
Date: 18 February 2013
Lynn Zinser
Lynn Zinser
The Nascar driver Danica Patrick won the pole position at the Daytona 500 on Sunday. In the N.B.A. All-Star game, Chris Paul offered heroics of his own.
Date: 18 February 2013
By Isabel Kershner
Isabel Kershner
A $2,700 allowance for a year’s worth of premium desserts for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has angered a public facing economic struggles.
Date: 18 February 2013
By Daniel E. Slotnik
Daniel Slotnik
The technology industry has set its sights on online gambling, Business Insider names Joe Weisenthal as executive editor and authenticating an online photo in Omaha takes more shoe leather than tech savvy.