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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (born 1928)[†]
Joseph Edgar Blanchard was an American football player, professional wrestler and promoter. His son is original Four Horseman member Tully Blanchard and his granddaughter is former Impact Champion Tessa Blanchard.
2012David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)[†]
David Leigh Waltz was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems. He held positions in academia and industry and at the time of his death, was a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems.
2012Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author (born 1956)[†]
Neil L. Whitehead was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean. From 1997 to 2007 he was the editor of Ethnohistory, Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
In a move to attract multinational advertisers and combat online piracy,“Touch,” a new drama from News Corporation, will start almost simultaneously in 100 countries and territories.
Mohammed Merah, the suspect in the killing of seven people, represents for European law enforcement officials the kind of terrorist threat that they fear most.
The Standard & Poor’s index of 11 home builder stocks has risen 80 percent since October, the most recent low for the industry.
German bonds are losing value as bond yields in Spain and Italy spike, leaving bondholders like big European banks poorer.
In Dan LeFranc’s play “The Big Meal” actors take turns portraying the members of a growing family across decades of life.
Jeb Bush endorsed Mitt Romney, sending a strong establishment message after Mr. Romney’s victory in Illinois. But the Romney campaign also gave life to its rivals.
With United States unemployment still high, oil field work around Williston, N.D., has attracted men from around the country who have uprooted themselves to live in “man camps.”
Nearly 300,000 disabled and mentally ill New Yorkers face a “needless risk of harm” because of conflicting rules, a lack of oversight and disagreements over what constitutes abuse, a draft report says.
Jennifer Lawrence stars as a teenage survivalist in a recycled American frontier myth in “The Hunger Games,” a film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel.
The Argentine Elena Roger stars in the Broadway revival of the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Evita.”
New York University’s latest proposal to expand in Greenwich Village has caused a storm of protest. Michael Kimmelman considers how to balance development with the local ecosystem.
The Jump-start Our Business Start-ups, or JOBS, Act is meant to ease rules to create jobs and raise financing for small companies.