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The founders of Instagram, now multimillionaires after Facebook bought their app this week, were helped along the way by the tight web in the Bay Area tech scene.
Along the coast, communities have largely bounced back from the recession, but inland areas are still struggling with high unemployment and a persistent housing crisis.
The company, the nation’s biggest retailer, worked with the Environmental Defense Fund in setting policies that would help the company reuse and recycle most of its waste.
For Lebanese content to stay out of the storm, and for Arab visitors seeking respite from fear and uncertainty around the region, Beirut is a destination to enjoy life.
Nearly 5,000 children qualified for gifted and talented kindergarten seats in New York City public schools in the fall, 22 percent more than last year and more than double the number four years ago.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 11, 2012, covering April 14, 2012.
Madonna
Lionel Richie
Adele
Shinedown
Soundtrack
2012Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919)[†]
Joseph Émile Alcide "Butch" Bouchard was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, won four Stanley Cups, was captain of the Canadiens for eight years, and was voted to the NHL All-Star team four times. Although having a reputation as a clean player, he was also one of the strongest players and best body-checkers of his era. He excelled as a defensive defenceman, had superior passing skills, and was known for his leadership and mentoring of younger players. In his early years in the NHL, Bouchard, among other players, made a major contribution to reinvigorating what was at the time an ailing Canadien franchise.
2012Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (born 1924)[†]
Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire caused the floundering daytime drama to soar to 20 million daily viewers. His watershed portrayal has been cited as a key influence on contemporary genre film and television series such as Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.
2012Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (born 1986)[†]
Piermario Morosini was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 14 April 2012, during a match between Pescara and Livorno, Morosini suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]