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The social game company, faced with a declining share price, is trying to figure out how to recover its early momentum as interest in its most popular games is waning.
An array of surveillance software now exists to let parents keep tabs on their childrenâs activities online, raising questions about appropriate parenting.
The high caliber of high school basketball around Washington, and the pressure on coaches, has fostered a fierce recruiting environment focused on players in middle school and even fifth grade.
The increasing violence has left its largest scars in some of the cityâs most impoverished, struggling neighborhoods on the South and West Sides.
Turkey escalated its warnings, even as some American and allied officials privately raised questions about whether the Turkish warplane shot down by Syria had been on a spy mission.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 20, 2012, covering June 26, 2012.
Adele
Alan Jackson
The Beach Boys
Neil Young With Crazy Horse
Big K.R.I.T.
2012Sverker Ă ström, Swedish diplomat, Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations (born 1915)[â ]
Carl Sverker à ström was a Swedish diplomat. After completing his studies, à ström began his career as an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. He served in the Soviet Union during World War II and later held posts in Washington, D.C., and London, rising to key leadership roles at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. From 1964 to 1970, he served as Sweden's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, followed by leading Sweden's EEC treaty negotiations. He later became State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and ambassador to France before retiring in 1982.
2012Pat Cummings, American basketball player (born 1956)[â ]
Pat Cummings was an American professional basketball player.
2012Nora Ephron, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1941)[â ]
Nora Ephron was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing romantic comedy films and received numerous accolades including a British Academy Film Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award and three Writers Guild of America Awards.
2012Mario O'Hara, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)[â ]
Mario Herrero O'Hara was a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter known for his sense of realism often with dark but realistic social messages.
2012Doris Singleton, American actress (born 1919)[â ]
Dorthea "Doris" Singleton was an American actress, perhaps best remembered as Lucy Ricardo's frenemy, Carolyn Appleby, in I Love Lucy.
2012The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.[â ]
The Waldo Canyon fire was a forest fire that started approximately 4 miles (6.4Â km) northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado on June 23, 2012, and was declared 100 percent contained on July 10, 2012, after no smoke plumes were visible on a small portion of the containment line on Blodgett Peak. The fire was active in the Pike National Forest and adjoining areas, covering a total of 18,247 acres. The fire had caused the evacuation of over 32,000 residents of Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs and Woodland Park, several small mountain communities along the southwestern side of U.S. Highway 24, and partial evacuation of the United States Air Force Academy. There were 346 homes destroyed by the fire. U.S. Highway 24, a major eastâwest road, was closed in both directions. The Waldo Canyon Fire resulted in insurance claims totaling more than US $453.7 million. It was the most destructive fire in Colorado state history, as measured by the number of homes destroyed, until the Black Forest Fire surpassed it almost a year later when it consumed 486 homes and damaged 28 others.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]