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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Agnes Allen, American baseball player and therapist (born 1930)[†]
Agnes Lorraine "Aggie" Allen was a pitcher and outfielder who played from 1950 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), 120 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.
2012Oliver Wrong, English nephrologist and academic (born 1925)[†]
Professor Oliver Murray Wrong was an eminent academic nephrologist and one of the founders of the speciality in the United Kingdom. From a background as a "salt and water" physician, he made detailed clinical observations and scientifically imaginative connections which were the basis of numerous advances in the molecular biology of the human kidney. Wrong himself contributed to much of the molecular work after his own "retirement". He dictated amendments to his final paper during his final illness in his own teaching hospital, University College Hospital (UCH), London. Though academic in his leanings, he was a compassionate physician who established a warm rapport with patients, a link he regarded as the keystone of his research. He belonged to a generation of idealistic young doctors responsible for the establishment of the UK's National Health Service in the post-War years.
To lure high-net-worth prospects, creative — and often kitschy — events are now the bait for brokers and potential buyers.
Like the man he will succeed as chief, Alex Gorsky is a company insider who served at Johnson & Johnson during one of the most tumultuous periods in its history
With just a few days to go, “The Artist” is the front-runner for best picture and best director at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
A sting that ensnarled 22 executives in a foreign bribery case fell apart, calling into question the Justice Department’s increasingly aggressive tactics in enforcing a corruption law.
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, likely to be elected president next month, will face a Russian society that has greatly changed under his watch, while he has remained essentially the same.
Nearly a year into Syria’s uprising, the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad is a fractious collection of divided political groups, longtime exiles, grass-roots organizers and militants.
The bank’s move represents a major escalation in a protracted legal battle over how many defaulted mortgages Bank of America will have to buy back from Fannie.
F. Murray Abraham stars in the Classic Stage Company’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” about the conflict between champions of progress and the church in Renaissance Italy.
Questions surrounding Representative Vern Buchanan’s Florida campaigns are threatening to distract from the Republicans’ national finance operation.
Mental health experts say that dark postings by adolescents should not be hastily dismissed because they can serve as an early warning system for timely intervention.
Mitt Romney often refers to his father, George Romney, in his campaign, but he also learned much from his mother, Lenore, who ran for a United States Senate seat.
The move comes after public investigators discovered that AIJ Investment Advisors may have lost the bulk of about $2.3 billion in funds it managed for its clients.