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President Obama called the leak in the Gulf of Mexico “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” But is the description accurate?
An Oscar-winning documentary depicting dolphin hunting angered fringe groups in Japan.
Thousands of people lined up Friday to be among the first to see the Wizarding World attraction, Universal Orlando’s $265 million bet on a boy wizard.
Many residents of a Staten Island neighborhood expressed hostility to the prospect of a mosque there.
Big energy companies help fill the campaign coffers of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 16, 2010, covering June 19, 2010.
Jack Johnson
Justin Bieber
Soundtrack
Lady Antebellum
Usher
2010Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (born 1962)[†]
Manute Bol was a Sudanese-American professional basketball player and political activist. Listed at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) or 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall, Bol was one of the two tallest players in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
2010Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)[†]
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton, FBA was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1978 to 1987; and as chairman of the board of the British Library from 1985 to 1990. He is also remembered as a presenter of the BBC Radio programme Round Britain Quiz.
2010Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)[†]
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the country's progressive sectors. His generation of writers includes Elena Poniatowska, José Emilio Pacheco, and Carlos Fuentes. Monsiváis won more than 33 awards, including the 1986 Jorge Cuesta Prize, the 1989 Mazatlán Prize, and the 1996 Xavier Villaurrutia Award. Considered a leading intellectual of his time, Monsiváis documented contemporary Mexican themes, values, class struggles, and societal change in his essays, books and opinion pieces. He was a staunch critic of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), leaned towards the left-wing, and was ubiquitous in disseminating his views on radio and television. As a founding member of "Gatos Olvidados", Monsiváis wanted his and other "forgotten cats" to be provided for beyond his lifetime.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]