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President Hu Jintao is preparing to visit to defuse tensions with the United States, but he might not be able to keep relations from growing worse.
The Jets avenged their loss at New England and set up an A.F.C. championship matchup with Pittsburgh.
Iran has embarked on a sweeping program of cuts in its inefficient system of subsidies on fuel and other goods that has held back economic progress for years.
Veterinarians are replacing hips, elbows and knees in dogs big and small, allowing them to prolong their athletic careers.
Restoring a 1770 map, found at the Brooklyn Historical Society, entailed boiling old books to get the right aged color.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 12, 2011, covering January 17, 2011.
Taylor Swift
Eminem
Rihanna
Nicki Minaj
Kanye West
2011Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (born 1934)[†]
Donald Kirshner was an American music publisher, music consultant, rock music producer, talent manager, and songwriter. Dubbed "the Man with the Golden Ear" by Time, he was best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups including the Monkees, Kansas, and the Archies.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]