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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012William Raggio, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)[â ]
William Raggio was an American politician and a former Republican member of the Nevada Senate. He represented Washoe County's 3rd district from 1972 until his retirement in 2011. He is the longest-serving member in the history of the State Senate.
2012David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (born 1924)[â ]
David Sayre was an American scientist, credited with the early development of direct methods for protein crystallography and of diffraction microscopy. While working at IBM he was part of the initial team of ten programmers who created FORTRAN, and later suggested the use of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of X-ray Fresnel zone plates.
2012Kazimierz Å»ygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (born 1919)[â ]
Kazimierz Żygulski was a Polish sociologist, political activist and Minister of Culture.
2012A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.[â ]
The 23 February 2012 Iraq attacks were the fifth simultaneous wave of bombings to hit Iraq during the insurgency and the first such major assault since the US withdrawal at the end of 2011. At least 83 people were killed and more than 250 wounded in highly coordinated attacks spread out in least 15 cities - including at least 10 explosions in the capital Baghdad that left 32 people dead. A number of shootings also took place, mostly aimed at police patrols and security installations around the city. The majority of the blasts appeared to specifically target Shiite areas.
Living alone means freedom to come and go and space and solitude to recharge. It can also unleash eccentricities.
At Four Season Farm, Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch continue to innovate and thrive.
Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated.
A long battle by New York State to collect taxes on cigarettes resold on Indian land has led tribes to make and sell their own cigarettes, which they argue are exempt from the tax.
During the sustained Syrian Army assault on Homs, videos of the violence are offering a stunningly vivid picture, sometimes live or at least in real time, of life in the city.
Mitt Romney tried to regain his lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, assailing the voting record of Rick Santorum in a fiercely combative exchange.
The Obama administrationâs proposal to extend tax breaks to manufacturers would result in other companies losing some lucrative tax benefits.
Mr. Rosset helped change the course of publishing in the United States, bringing masters like Samuel Beckett to Americansâ attention, and won celebrated First Amendment slugfests against censorship.
The Obama administration said its suggestions would empower consumers regarding use of their personal data gleaned from Internet searches.
The Dutch carrier KLM and others are testing programs to allow ticket-holders to upload details from their online profiles and use that data to choose seatmates.
Fraud involving a Chinese company traded in the United States was basically spelled out in documents that were publicly available in China, but it appears no one bothered to look.
A writer who has crossed many borders finds the one between Nogales, Ariz., and Mexico to be the oddest frontier of all.