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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (born 1960)[†]
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov, nicknamed "The Tank", was a Russian professional ice hockey forward. Together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, he was part of the famed KLM Line. He is considered one of the best ice hockey wingers of the 1980s.
Congress is expected to quiz regulators on Wednesday about their failure to keep an eye on the JPMorgan unit responsible for a trading loss of more than $2 billion.
The cost of New York City’s special education prekindergarten program has nearly doubled in six years, and governmental oversight of the contractors running it has often been lax.
Robert F. X. Sillerman made the concert business more corporate and wants to do the same with the latest trend in the music industry.
Airtime, a live video chat service designed by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, the founders of Napster, hopes to recreate the spontaneity of the 1990s AOL chat rooms.
J. Paul Reddam, owner of I’ll Have Another, studied philosophy before embarking on a career that includes horse racing and running a business that makes high-risk, high-interest loans.
Officials in Greece said that despite the latest bailout, the government faces a shortfall of 1.7 billion euros because tax revenue and other sources of income are rapidly disappearing.
A new survey finds that those without a college degree have dismal job prospects and considerable obstacles blocking improvement.
Aaron Sorkin returns to topical, workplace television with “The Newsroom,” starring Jeff Daniels on HBO.
The imaginative evocations of the future in Mr. Bradbury’s science fiction reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America.
The Nasdaq OMX Group plans to set aside up to $40 million to settle disputes by investors over issues caused by technical glitches in Facebook’s initial public offering.
Technology that allows the sharing of frequencies is getting new backing as smartphones and tablets put greater demand on available bands.
With the forthcoming Wii U, Nintendo executives hope to alter the familiar phenomenon of people together in a room, silently absorbed in their own screens.