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The Obama administration said it would widen the use of competitive bidding to buy equipment for Medicare beneficiaries because a pilot program saved money without harming care.
The Broadway revival of “Godspell” has attracted attention by recruiting a team of about 700 investors, with some putting up as little as $1,000 each.
More than half of the state’s electorate is white and working class, a group that President Obama and Mitt Romney have each had a hard time connecting with.
Officer Eder Loor of the New York Police Department, who is expected to make a full recovery, “is probably the luckiest unlucky man you could ever have,” his doctor said.
“One Man, Two Guvnors,” a splendidly silly import from London, is an adaptation of Goldoni’s 18th-century “Servant of Two Masters.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 18, 2012, covering April 19, 2012.
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Adele
Rascal Flatts
Lionel Richie
One Direction
2012Levon Helm, American musician and actor (born 1940)[†]
Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Helm was known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, multi-instrumental ability, and creative drumming style, highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]