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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (born 1954)[â ]
Gary Edmund Carter was an American professional baseball catcher whose 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career was spent primarily with the Montreal Expos and New York Mets. Nicknamed "Kid" for his youthful exuberance, Carter was named an All-Star 11 times and was a member of the 1986 World Series champion Mets.
2012Elyse Knox, American model, actress, and fashion designer (born 1917)[â ]
Elyse Knox was an American actress, model, and fashion designer. She was the mother of actor Mark Harmon.
2012John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (born 1916)[â ]
John Joseph Macionis was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
2012Anthony Shadid, American journalist (born 1968)[â ]
Anthony Shadid was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut who won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.
In âAnd God Created Great Whales,â Rinde Eckert reprises his role as a composer who is losing his memory and struggling to finish an opera based on âMoby-Dick.â
Reassessing Arcosanti, an âurban laboratoryâ in the Arizona desert founded in the 1970s by students, architects and seekers.
The Obama administrationâs plan to require insurers to cover the costs of birth control is being complicated by the fact that many religiously affiliated organizations insure themselves.
The lack of opportunity is feeding a mounting alienation and anger among young people across Europe, threatening to poison the aspirations of a generation.
A proposed sale to a group composed of the regionâs most powerful Democrats is pitting newspaper management against the newsroom.
Many Asian-American fans in New York cannot watch Jeremy Lin on television because Knicks games have been blacked out in a cable dispute between Time Warner and MSG Network.
A flurry of actions and statements by Iran this week suggest its leaders are responding frantically, and more unpredictably, to the tightening of sanctions by the West.
Representative Michael G. Grimm, who represents Staten Island and part of Brooklyn, has ties to a convicted former colleague that reflect a checkered business background.
Cindy Sherman, whose 35-year career will be the subject of a major show at MoMA this month, is nothing like the characters she portrays as in her photos.
The illegal and denounced practice of âbaad,â the giving of girls as payment for offenses committed by their relatives, is pervasive in parts of Afghanistan, according to human rights workers.
With a grade of oil closely resembling Iranâs, Russia could reap windfalls from European customers willing to pay premium prices.
Nathan Englanderâs new stories, written with his trademark blend of the breezy and the biblical, are concerned with mercy, vengeance and righteousness.