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In Wisconsin, new pension cost estimates are expected to show that contribution levels are too meager and more money will be needed from public workers.
At the televised hearing, it was the committee that seemed to be on trial as lawmakers pointed fingers at one another.
Three plants operated by Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit have had quality problems for over a year.
A wave of start-ups, including GroupMe, FastSociety and Beluga, are offering apps that allow multiple users to participate in smartphone text conversations.
Japan was filled with scenes of desperation a day after an 8.9-magnitude quake, as survivors called for help and rescuers looked for people buried in rubble.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 2011, covering March 11, 2011.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Mumford & Sons
Various Artists
Justin Bieber
2011An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.[†]
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 JST, a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake" , among other names. The disaster is often referred to by its numerical date, 3.11.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]