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The opportunities and the risks are greater for President Obama, who seeks to shape perceptions of Mitt Romney just as more voters are starting to tune in to the race.
A custody battle “between two diametrically opposed worldviews on parentage and family” touches on contentious social and legal questions over what happens to children when civil unions dissolve.
Even as the new health care law expands insurance coverage, another problem faces many areas of the country: a lack of physicians, particularly primary care ones.
The reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber, a gold medal favorite, left the Olympic gymnastics arena in tears after failing to qualify for the finals.
At a meeting this week, Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, faces the complicated task of delivering on his promise to do “whatever it takes to preserve the euro.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 25, 2012, covering July 29, 2012.
Zac Brown Band
Frank Ocean
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
Maroon 5
2012Tatiana Egorova, Russian footballer and manager (born 1970)[†]
Tatiana Egorova was a Russian footballer and manager. She played for CSK VVS Samara and Rossiyanka in the Russian Championship, and Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga, and she was a member of the Russian national team, with whom she played the 1999 and 2003 World Cups.
2012Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (born 1921)[†]
Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
2012James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (born 1925)[†]
James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market. He was also involved in a string of controversies, including the so-called mother goddess controversy in Anatolia, which eventually led to his being banned from excavations in Turkey in the 1960s. After his death, it was discovered that Mellaart had forged many of his "finds", including murals and inscriptions from the Çatalhöyük site.
2012John Stampe, Danish footballer and coach (born 1957)[†]
John Stampe Møller was a Danish football player and coach.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]