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Do Something, a nonprofit group that urges teenagers to do civic activities, is using mobile technology in an effort to sign up 3.8 million members by 2014.
Three brave souls spent an evening studying whether earplugs, a funny hat or fingers in the ears could best bring some quiet in a noisy city.
The prelude to every match at Wimbledon, as elsewhere in tennis, is a hitting session that lasts five minutes and unfolds in a predictable manner.
Japan’s nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources to convince the public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power.
Jim Riggleman’s resignation this week comes as the Washington Nationals are playing their best baseball in years, but his action is not unprecedented.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 22, 2011, covering June 25, 2011.
Adele
Lady Gaga
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Tech N9ne
Ronnie Dunn
2011Annie Easley, American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1933)[†]
Annie Easley was an African American computer scientist and mathematician who made critical contributions to NASA's rocket systems and energy technologies.
2011Goff Richards, English composer and conductor (born 1944)[†]
Goff Richards, sometimes credited as Godfrey Richards, was a prominent Cornish brass band arranger and composer. He was born in Cornwall, studying at the Royal College of Music and Reading University. Between 1976 and 1989, he lectured in arranging and at Salford College of Technology. He was the musical director of the Chetham's Big Band for many years. In 1976, he was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. He received a Doctorate from Salford University in 1990, after a career that had seen him lead the University Jazz Orchestra to the BBC Big Band of the Year title in 1989.
2011Margaret Tyzack, English actress (born 1931)[†]
Margaret Maud Tyzack was an English actress. Her television roles included The Forsyte Saga (1967) I, Claudius (1976), and George Lucas's Young Indiana Jones (1992–1993). She won the 1970 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC serial The First Churchills, and the 1990 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage, opposite Maggie Smith. She also won two Olivier Awards—in 1981 as Actress of the Year in a Revival and in 2009 as Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances included Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971). As well as Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Match Point (2005).
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]