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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Judith Adams, New Zealand-Australian nurse and politician (born 1943)[†]
Judith Anne Adams was a New Zealand-born Australian politician, midwife, nurse, and farmer, who served as a member of the Australian Senate between 2005 and 2012, representing the state of Western Australia.
2012Dale R. Corson, American physicist and academic (born 1914)[†]
Dale Raymond Corson was an American physicist and academic administrator who was the eighth president of Cornell University.
2012Bernard O. Gruenke, American stained glass artist (born 1914)[†]
Bernard Otto Gruenke was an American stained glass artist who produced one of the first faceted glass windows in the United States in 1949. He was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
2012Jerry Lynch, American baseball player (born 1930)[†]
Gerald Thomas Lynch, nicknamed "the Hat", "Lynch the Pinch" and "the Allison Park Sweeper", was an American professional baseball outfielder who ranked among the most prolific pinch hitters in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. He played 13 seasons (1954-1966) with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds.
2012Alberto Sughi, Italian painter (born 1928)[†]
Alberto Sughi was an Italian painter.
2012Halbert White, American economist and academic (born 1950)[†]
Halbert Lynn White Jr. was the Chancellor's Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The largely unseen forces that keep the Internet running have fortified crucial parts of it after learning of plans for an attack by Anonymous on the Domain Name System.
A shortage of workers is a big factor in the long shifts and workweeks that manufacturers have used to meet production quotas, all while forcing higher wages.
The use of clickers has spread from classroom pop quizzes to corporate presentations and church sermons, as efforts increase to encourage participation and gauge opinions.
Policy experts and others are weighing the repercussions of a possible decision by the Supreme Court to strike down the federal health care law.
California is proposing changes in its efforts against gang violence that could decrease the use of long-term segregation.
Nuance Communications, the leading company in voice technology, is expanding its efforts to make more kinds of machines responsive to our spoken commands.
Two professors propose a federal agency, in some ways like the F.D.A., that would test the social utility of financial products before they were allowed on the market.
After a lucrative career at Merrill Lynch, Ahmass Fakahany is bringing a Wall Street sensibility to running restaurants. And so far, it has worked.
If he wins the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday, Mitt Romney could take firm control of the Republican presidential nominating contest for the first time.
The competitive gap is closing in new stadiums and statistical analyses, so what areas will baseball teams mine for advantages in the future?
The Muslim Brotherhood nominated its chief strategist and financier Khairat el-Shater to become Egypt’s first president since Hosni Mubarak.
The effort to confront cholera in Haiti was muddled by the United Nations’ apparent role in setting it off.