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Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka is returning to his hometown, Indianapolis, for the Super Bowl. But he is drawn to Uganda, where his grandfather was a historic figure.
While many modern executives live behind a wall of communications operatives, Rupert Murdoch, the chief of News Corporation, is openly expressing his opinions on Twitter.
The use of unarmed craft to protect American buildings and personnel may foreshadow an expansion of such operations to the United States government’s diplomatic arm.
Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, faces a problem in Europe as businesses look for other smartphone options, including Apple and Android phones.
Part gymnastics, part parkour, wall trampoline is a nascent sport with few participants, but its proponents have big plans for it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 25, 2012, covering January 30, 2012.
Adele
David Crowder Band
The Black Keys
Drake
Snow Patrol
2012Frank Aschenbrenner, American football player and soldier (born 1925)[†]
Francis Xavier Aschenbrenner was a professional American football player for the Chicago Hornets and the Montreal Alouettes.
2012Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch author (born 1947)[†]
Maria Johanna Meijsing was a Dutch novelist. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2000 for her novel De tweede man, and in 2008 the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for her novel Over de liefde. Doeschka Meijsing is the older sister of writer Geerten Meijsing and philosopher Monica Meijsing.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]