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Roughly six years after the housing market began its longest and deepest slide since the Great Depression, home sales and an increase in sales prices indicate that the market is recovering.
Publishers are dressing classic novels like âEmmaâ and âJane Eyreâ in sexy new covers, hoping to appeal to the young-adult readers who made âTwilightâ and âThe Hunger Gamesâ so popular.
The company said it plans to divide within 12 months into two entities, one that would include its lucrative entertainment assets and a smaller one featuring its newspapers.
Naglaa Ali Mahmoud has drawn both praise and criticism as the traditionalist everywoman wife of Egyptâs first Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi.
Mexicali, Mexico, has made medical care its primary lure for visitors from California and other nearby states.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 27, 2012, covering June 28, 2012.
Usher
Rush
Adele
Josh Turner
Ed Sheeran
2012Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (born 1934)[â ]
Richard A. Isay was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and gay activist. He was a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Isay is considered a pioneer who changed the way that psychoanalysts view homosexuality.
2012Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (born 1920)[â ]
Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church. She was the second woman elevated to the position of bishop within the United Methodist Church, and the first African American woman.
2012Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (born 1923)[â ]
Robert Sabatier was a French poet and writer. He wrote numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme. He is also the author of Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XVIIe siÚcle
2012Doris Sams, American baseball player (born 1927)[â ]
Doris Jane Sams, nicknamed "Sammye", was an American outfielder and pitcher who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5Â ft 9Â in (1.75Â m), 145Â lbs., she batted and threw right-handed.
2012The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.[â ]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]