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An attack by the hacker group Anonymous on a Vatican Web site in August offers a rare look at the collective’s approach to recruiting, reconnaissance and warfare.
More than 100,000 people have left the sprawling camps where they took refuge for nearly a decade and headed home to their villages in Darfur over the past year.
After promising to enhance whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers, the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act as a kind of ad hoc Official Secrets Act.
The Yankees’ expected starting rotation, led by C. C. Sabathia (6 feet 7 inches, 290 pounds) and Michael Pineda (6-7, 280), is among the biggest in baseball history.
Administration officials described growing concern about a drawdown by the United States that hinges on the close mentoring and training of Afghan army and police forces.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 22, 2012, covering February 27, 2012.
Adele
Van Halen
Various Artists
The Fray
Paul McCartney
2012Ma Jiyuan, Chinese general (born 1921)[†]
Ma Jiyuan was a Ma clique warlord in China during the Republic of China era, ruling the northwestern province of Qinghai. He was the son and only child of general Ma Bufang and commanded nationalist forces against the communists at the Heshui Campaign, Meridian Ridge Campaign, and the Lanzhou Campaign during the Chinese Civil War. Ma was 28 years old when he defeated 30,000 PLA soldiers in the Heshui campaign in 1948. He led the 82nd Cavalry Division, of which 30 percent of whom were Muslims, to charge the Communists with swords. Ma complained that the Kuomintang government was not resupplying him enough and that there was no more "revolutionary spirit". On the opposing side General Zhao Shoushan led the Communists, Zhao formerly attended the same school as Ma.
2012Tina Strobos, Dutch physician and psychiatrist (born 1920)[†]
Tina Strobos was a Dutch physician and psychiatrist from Amsterdam, known for her resistance work during World War II. While a young medical student, she worked with her mother and grandmother to rescue more than 100 Jewish refugees as part of the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Strobos provided her house as a hiding place for Jews on the run, using a secret attic compartment and warning bell system to keep them safe from sudden police raids. In addition, Strobos smuggled guns and radios for the resistance and forged passports to help refugees escape the country. Despite being arrested and interrogated nine times by the Gestapo, she never betrayed the whereabouts of a Jew.
2012Helga Vlahović, Croatian journalist and producer (born 1945)[†]
Helga Vlahović was a Croatian journalist, producer, and television personality, whose career spanned five decades in both SFR Yugoslavia and later Croatia. She was one of the most popular television presenters in the 1980s. Throughout her career, she was also credited as Helga Vlahović Pea and Helga Vlahović Brnobić during the times she was married.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]