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Ruben W. Wills of Jamaica, Queens, who took office after a special election, has the listening skills of a bartender and a passion for his work.
For decades, the arcade Chinatown Fair was known as a welcoming spot for gamers of all stripes; its shuttering leaves a void that may be filled by a new gaming space.
Boys as young as their early teens have left their homes in hopes of joining the opposition forces.
Robert Salzman, who spent time in prison and was recently cast in a film, performs a strenuous daily workout that lacks frills.
The Justice Department is looking into claims that a unit of Morgan Stanley illegally foreclosed on almost two dozen military families.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 2011, covering March 12, 2011.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Mumford & Sons
Various Artists
Justin Bieber
2011Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (born 1919)[†]
Adionilla Pizzi, known by her stage name Nilla Pizzi, was an Italian singer and actress.
2011A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[†]
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 350-hectare (860-acre) site in the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The chain of events caused radiation leaks and permanently damaged several of its reactors, making them impossible to restart. The working reactors were not restarted after the events.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]