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Many major retailers plan to hire more workers during the lucrative holiday season, a reflection of statistics that show consumers just keep shopping despite the troubled economy.
Insurgents in Afghanistan use tactics like controlling the hours of cellphone use, in addition to selected attacks and some new flexibility on matters like education.
The battle to shape the image of an American being tried for homicide in Italy began soon after Amanda Knox’s arrest and was waged by both sides.
Many American farmers are finding that the more they try to do something concrete to address immigration and joblessness, the worse off they find themselves.
Two advice classics — Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and “Emily Post’s Etiquette” — have been updated for the era of Facebook and Google Plus.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 2011, covering October 5, 2011.
Tony Bennett
Lady Antebellum
Adele
Demi Lovato
Lil Wayne
2011Derrick Bell, American academic and scholar (born 1930)[†]
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi.
2011Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)[†]
Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded more than 28 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.
2011Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1955)[†]
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
2011Charles Napier, American actor and singer (born 1936)[†]
Charles Lewis Napier was an American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of them villainous or corrupt. After leaving his Kentucky hometown to serve in the Army, he graduated from college and worked as a sports coach and art teacher before settling on acting as a career. His first prominent role in a film was in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969), which was the first of four films he would do with director Russ Meyer. Napier established himself in character roles and worked steadily for the next 35 years. He made numerous collaborations with director Jonathan Demme, including roles in Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Beloved (1998), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).
2011Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (born 1922)[†]
Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist who led fights against segregation and other forms of racism, during the civil rights movement. He often worked with Martin Luther King Jr., although they did not always agree on tactics and approaches.
2011Gökşin Sipahioğlu, Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1926)[†]
Gökşin Sipahioğlu was a Turkish photographer and journalist who founded the Paris-based photo agency Sipa Press. He spent most of his life in Paris where the French media dubbed him "le Grand Turc". He also helped found the Kadiköy Sports Club, now best known for the Efes Pilsen basketball team.
2011In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.[†]
The Mekong River massacre occurred on the morning of 5 October 2011, when two Chinese cargo ships were attacked on a stretch of the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle region on the borders of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. All 13 crew members on both ships were killed and dumped in the river. It was the deadliest attack on Chinese nationals abroad in modern times. In response, China temporarily suspended shipping on the Mekong, and reached an agreement with Myanmar, Thailand and Laos to jointly patrol the river. The event was also the impetus for the Naypyidaw Declaration and other anti-drug cooperation efforts in the region. On 28 October 2011, Thai authorities arrested nine Pha Muang Task Force soldiers, who subsequently "disappeared from the justice system". Drug lord Naw Kham and three subordinates were eventually tried and executed by the Chinese government for their roles in the massacre.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]