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Scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in the world is not six but 4.74.
As the nation seeks ways to create jobs, critics say many big companies are squandering resources on share repurchases at the expense of investing in future growth.
Some travelers are still bothered by the screening process at airports, and the airlines worry that the frustrations are contributing to a decline in air travel.
A sharp reduction in annual federal deficits, larger than anything contemplated by the special panel, could result from the latest Congressional failure to agree on a plan.
Watching “An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin” is a bit like riding a wooden roller coaster: one minute you’re levitating with exhilaration, the next you’re clinging to your seat for dear life.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 16, 2011, covering November 22, 2011.
Justin Bieber
Wale
Miranda Lambert
Susan Boyle
Adele
2011Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author (born 1926)[†]
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized citizen. From 1984 to 1986, she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship reinstated. She was Stalin's last surviving child.
2011Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano (born 1921)[†]
Srebrenka "Sena" Jurinac was a Bosnian-born Austrian operatic soprano.
2011Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (born 1938)[†]
Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei by proposing it to have been the result of symbiotic mergers of bacteria. Margulis was also the co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis with the British chemist James Lovelock, proposing that the Earth functions as a single self-regulating system, and was the principal defender and promulgator of the five kingdom classification of Robert Whittaker.
2011Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (born 1931)[†]
Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer of Armenian descent. He played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]