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A government shutdown can mean a host of changes for the country, from a shuttered Smithsonian to an Internal Revenue Service that stops issuing refund checks.
The nuclear plant in Japan faces an array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely or increase as a result of stabilization efforts, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the founder of Colony Capital, which controls $36 billion in investments, sees the Arab world as an investing opportunity despite the unrest.
Though proponents of online education say the course offerings are rich, skeptics say corners are being cut in an effort to save money.
Procter & Gamble’s sale of Pringles, which began as such a dud that some called for the company to dump the brand, concludes a sometimes zany 50-year experiment in engineered food.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 6, 2011, covering April 6, 2011.
Chris Brown
Jennifer Hudson
Adele
The Strokes
Kirk Franklin
2011Gerald Finnerman, American director and cinematographer (born 1931)[†]
Gerald Perry Finnerman was an American cinematographer who worked on TV series such as Moonlighting and the original Star Trek. He served as vice president of the American Society of Cinematographers, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special.
2011In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.[†]
San Fernando is a city located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas; it serves as the seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is about 85 miles (137 km) away from Brownsville, Texas, United States. The municipality has a population of 57,220, while the city itself has a population of 29,665.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]