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A “gas rush” is revitalizing parts of rural Pennsylvania. But it has had ill effects — on drinking water, roads and housing — and prompted worries about the long term.
As the demonstrations grow, the different worldviews of bankers show the wide chasms that have opened over who is to blame for economic malaise.
Two men have proposed creating a memorial park in Greenwich Village to those who died from AIDS and to the New Yorkers who cared for them before they died.
In Texas, Mike Toomey is respected and feared for his keen intellect, tough political tactics and relationship with Rick Perry.
A growing number of lawyers and activists are questioning the willingness of the Egyptian military to ultimately submit to civilian authority.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 2011, covering October 15, 2011.
J. Cole
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Adele
Tony Bennett
Wilco
2011Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (born 1920)[†]
Elizabeth Mary Driver was a British actress and singer, best known for her role as Betty Williams in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role she played for 42 years from 1969 to 2011, appearing in 2,732 episodes. She had previously appeared as Mrs Edgley in Coronation Street spin-off Pardon the Expression (1965–1966) opposite Arthur Lowe. In her early career she was a singer, appearing in musical films such as Boots! Boots! (1934), opposite George Formby, and in Penny Paradise (1938), directed by Carol Reed. She was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]