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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Raymond Aubrac, French engineer and activist (born 1914)[â ]
Raymond Aubrac was a member of the French Resistance in World War II. A civil engineer by trade, he assisted General Charles Delestraint within the Armée secrÚte. Aubrac and his wife Lucie, both communist Resistance members, were friends with Ho Chi Minh; US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger solicited his help amid the Vietnam War to establish contact with North Vietnam.
2012Barbara Buchholz, German theremin player and composer (born 1959)[â ]
Barbara Buchholz was a Berlin-based German musician and composer. She was one of the leading theremin players of the world.
2012Lili Chookasian, Armenian-American operatic singer (born 1921)[â ]
Lili Chookasian was an American contralto of Armenian ethnicity, who appeared with many of the world's major symphony orchestras and opera houses. She began her career in the 1940s as a concert singer but did not draw wider acclaim until she began singing opera in her late thirties. She arose as one of the world's leading contraltos during the 1960s and 1970s, and notably had a long and celebrated career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1962 through 1986. She was admired for her sonorous, focused tone as well as her excellent musicianship. She often chose, against tradition, to sing oratorios from memory.
2012Luis Aponte MartĂnez, Puerto Rican cardinal (born 1922)[â ]
Luis Aponte MartĂnez was a Puerto Rican Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of San Juan from 1965 to 1999. He is the only Puerto Rican to have been named a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He participated as an elector in the two conclaves of 1978, which elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II.
2012Akin Omoboriowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (born 1932)[â ]
Akinwole Michael Omoboriowo was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was Deputy Governor of Ondo State, later switching parties and contested for the governorship election of 1983 in Ondo State during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was initially declared the winner but was disputed and later reversed by a court of appeal before he could take office.
In hiring Sherilyn S. McCoy after an extensive search, Avon appears to be making the case that it can turn around the company on its own, without help.
Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan has joined a number of medical centers around the country in creating a special emergency room for geriatric patients.
As the nationâs economy slowly recovers, several states are pushing to raise the minimum wage, arguing that $7.25 an hour is too meager to live on.
Jim Yong Kim, now the president of Dartmouth, says there is no one résumé that is sufficient to address the wide human problems addressed by the World Bank.
According to statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 72 police officers were killed in 2011, a 25 percent increase from the previous year and 75 percent rise from 2008.
Angela B. Corey, who was appointed special prosecutor in the killing of Trayvon Martin, must alone determine whether to charge the man who shot the unarmed teenager.
Exports surged last month, helping to produce an unexpected trade surplus of $5.35 billion in March, but imports grew lethargically, a warning sign for the nation.
Wall Street notched its fifth consecutive decline on Tuesday fueled by concerns over the euro zone.
Edward DeMarco, the regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said it might make sense for the mortgage finance companies to write down mortgage loan principal.
The wife of Bo Xilai, who had been seen as one of the handful of rising leaders slated to run China, is being investigated in the killing of a businessman, Neil Heywood, last year.
Tyler Cowen skewers food-world pretensions, especially the slow-food, eat-local movements, while praising modern agribusiness.
The incident involving Ozzie Guillen exposed just how volatile the issue of Fidel Castroâs reign remains in Miami among the nationâs largest population of Cuban immigrants.