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Despite an influx of American assistance, residents of an area of Honduras that has become a way station for cocaine on its way north say they feel threatened.
Craft, with its quirks and nicks, threatened to overshadow sleek goods at the annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.
Insurers, hospitals and doctors say they are forming partnerships and creating programs to find ways to slow the growth in the nation’s $2.7 trillion health care bill.
Attacks by President Obama’s campaign against Mitt Romney’s work in private equity have strained the relationship between Democrats and the financial industry.
If Phillip Phillips had been craving a victory on “American Idol,” he did an outstanding job of hiding it. But on the show’s 11th season, he performed as if there were no competition.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 23, 2012, covering May 24, 2012.
Carrie Underwood
Adele
Lionel Richie
Various Artists
Norah Jones
2012Klaas Carel Faber, Dutch-German SS officer (born 1922)[†]
Klaas Carel Faber was a convicted Dutch-German war criminal. He was the son of Pieter and Carolina Josephine Henriëtte Faber, and the brother of Pieter Johan Faber, who was executed for war crimes in 1948. Faber was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. Faber died in Germany in May 2012, having never been extradited.
2012Kathi Kamen Goldmark, American journalist and author (born 1948)[†]
Kathi Kamen Goldmark was an American author, columnist, publishing consultant, radio and music producer, songwriter, and musician. Goldmark was the author of the novel And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, co-authored or contributed to numerous other books, wrote a monthly column for BookPage with her husband, author and musician Sam Barry and produced the radio show West Coast Live. She was a member of the San Francisco band Los Train Wreck, and founding member of the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders. As President of "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Productions i,nI., she supervised the production of ten music and spoken-word CDs.
2012Jacqueline Harpman, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (born 1929)[†]
Jacqueline Harpman was a Belgian Francophone writer and psychoanalyst.
2012Juan Francisco Lombardo, Argentinian footballer (born 1925)[†]
Juan Francisco Lombardo was an Argentine football defender. He played a large part of his career for Argentine giants Boca Juniors and represented Argentina on 37 occasions.
2012Lee Rich, American production manager and producer (born 1918)[†]
Lee Rich was an American film and television producer, who won the 1973 Outstanding Drama Series Emmy award for The Waltons as the producer. He is also known as the co-founder and former chairman of Lorimar Television.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]