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In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]
2010Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1927)[†]
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages so far.
Despite the attention paid to insurgent challengers, there is a wealth of prior experience among many likely Republican victors.
Alarmed by China’s recent embargo, many countries are now scrambling to develop new mines or renovate ones long considered not to be worth the effort.
The confidence U.S. policy makers had that the country could avoid the economic fate of Japan is now waning.
At three types of New York clinics, it’s not always obvious what services are provided.
No player has bared more on baseball’s biggest stage than Josh Hamilton, who nearly lost his career to drugs and alcohol.
A ruling to allow a lawsuit against a 4-year-old prompts a mother to reflect on accidents just waiting to happen.
Although the Mets needed Sandy Alderson as general manager more than he needed them, he’ll be trying to repair an organization with an ownership caught along a generational fault line.
Sadr City has moved from black-clad militiamen and Islamic codes to weddings, music, movies and games.
Senator Harry Reid and his G.O.P. challenger, Sharron Angle, are united by the same problem: most voters do not like either of them.
The new position, a shift in longstanding federal policy, will impact medicine and the biotechnology industry.
Yemen arrested a woman suspected of sending two packages with sophisticated bombs, further evidence that Al Qaeda is improving its ability to strike on U.S. soil.
The Rangers’ Mitch Moreland had an uncanny knack for putting the barrel of the bat on the ball, and, as a left-handed pitcher, can throw 93 miles per hour.