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In the year since Oprah Winfrey’s reliably popular talk show went off the air, no program has emerged as a consistent ratings winner to take its place.
Even if the health care law is overturned, or repealed after the next election, the economic pressure to care differently for more people at lower cost is irreversible.
Under a government initiative, each week a different citizen is entrusted the country’s Twitter account, @Sweden, to post at will.
China reported a surge in exports, which could ease the damage from weakness in the domestic economy, but also increase trade tensions with the West.
Public records and interviews with relatives and neighbors of Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, indicate a life of turbulence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 6, 2012, covering June 11, 2012.
John Mayer
Adele
Carrie Underwood
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators
One Direction
2012Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (born 1917)[†]
Therese Ann Rutherford was a Canadian-born American actress in film, radio, and television. She had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict during the 1930s and 1940s in the Andy Hardy series, and appearing as one of Scarlett O'Hara's sisters, Careen O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind (1939).
2012Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (born 1952)[†]
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence was a Cuban amateur boxer who competed from 1966 to 1986.
201275 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.[†]
On 11 June 2012, two moderate earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide. The landslide buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days of digging, only five bodies were recovered and the search was called off. Overall, 75 people were killed and 13 others were injured.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]