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William C. Weldon will step down as chief executive of Johnson & Johnson, which has struggled to emerge from a swarm of product recalls and manufacturing lapses.
Before recalling an all-metal artificial hip, Johnson & Johnson insisted it was safe and maintained that company-sponsored studies refuted complaints that the device was flawed.
About two dozen couples, individuals, or corporations have given $1 million or more to “super PACs” this year, making them easily the most influential donors in politics today.
Talk of war over Iran’s nuclear program has reached a strident pitch in recent weeks, with threats from Israel of a possible strike, bellicose American oratory and defiance from Tehran.
As expenses rise, there are new calls to limit the costs at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and outlays for defending its former executives.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 22, 2012, covering February 22, 2012.
Adele
Van Halen
Various Artists
The Fray
Paul McCartney
2012Sukhbir, Indian author and poet (born 1925)[†]
Sukhbir, alias Balbir Singh, was a Punjabi novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. He wrote and published for fifty years. He wrote seven novels, 11 short story collections, and five poetry collections, and made many translations of world literature, essays, letters and book reviews.
2012Frank Carson, Irish-English comedian and actor (born 1926)[†]
Hugh Francis Carson KSG was a Northern Irish comedian and actor from Belfast. He was best known for being a regular face on television for many years from the 1970s onwards, appearing in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas. His trademark line was "It's the way I tell them!". Carson was a member of the entertainment charity the Grand Order of Water Rats.
2012Marie Colvin, American journalist (born 1956)[†]
Marie Catherine Colvin was an American journalist who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death. She was one of the most prominent war correspondents of her generation, widely recognized for her extensive coverage on the frontlines of various conflicts across the globe. On February 22, 2012, while she was covering the siege of Homs alongside the French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik, the pair were killed in a targeted attack by Syrian government forces.
2012Rémi Ochlik, French photographer and journalist (born 1983)[†]
Rémi Ochlik was a French photojournalist who was known for his photographs of war and conflict in Haiti and the Arab Spring revolutions. Ochlik died in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs during the Syrian uprising along with veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin.
2012A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.[†]
The 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster, also known as the Once Tragedy, occurred on 22 February 2012, when a train crashed at Once Station in the Balvanera neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]