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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Mohit Chattopadhyay, Indian poet and playwright (born 1934)[†]
Mohit Chattopadhyaya was a Bengali Indian playwright, screenwriter, dramatist and poet. He was a leading figure in modern Indian drama. Mohit Chottopadhya died on 12 April 2012. He had been suffering from cancer.
2012Rodgers Grant, American pianist and composer (born 1935)[†]
Rodgers Lee Grant was an American jazz pianist, composer, and lyricist. After working with saxophonist Hugo Dickens in the 1950s, he became pianist for Mongo Santamaría in the 1960s. In 1963, Grant wrote the hit "Yeh! Yeh!" with Pat Patrick. Jon Hendricks wrote lyrics for the song and recorded it with Lambert and Bavan at the Newport Jazz Festival of 1963. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames had a hit with the song in 1965.
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A well-heeled coalition is pushing to enact a public financing system for elections, starting next week with mailings to the constituents of four state senators.
Mitt Romney’s campaign finds itself squeezed between its intensifying efforts to appeal to women and its need to avoid alienating conservatives.
The government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put Amazon, the nation’s largest bookseller, in a powerful position to decide how much an e-book will cost.
The Guggenheim Foundation and UBS are starting a five-year program to work with artists, curators and educators from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.
The most prominent N.B.A. rivalry of the 1980s provides the basis for the new play “Magic/Bird,” on Broadway at the Longacre Theater.
Neil Heywood’s ties to Bo Xilai and his family may have cost him his life and set off China’s biggest political scandal in a generation. But precisely why, or how, he died is still unknown.
Christian Borle, an actor in NBC’s “Smash,” is also keeping a foot in the theater, playing a pirate in “Peter and the Starcatcher,” opening Sunday on Broadway.
A plan to reopen a mine in Spain has been stalled, angering local residents in need of jobs while leaving environmentalists worried that economic priorities will trump safety concerns.
Among the challenges facing the Broadway transfer of Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park,” the actors had to confront their own reactions to the play’s charged dialogue about race.
The new HBO series, about women in their 20s who have man troubles, tiny New York apartments and little ambition, might suggest “Sex and the City,” but with Gen Y slackers.
Bernie Krause’s book guides us through nature’s sonic treasures and begs us to pay attention to their fate.
The search giant also reported first-quarter revenue that rose 24 percent and earnings that slightly beat analysts’ expectations.