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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)[†]
Johnnie Alexander Bassett was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician, by the 1990s Bassett had his own backing band. He released seven albums in his lifetime. He cited Billy Butler, Tiny Grimes, Albert King, B.B. King and especially T-Bone Walker as major influences.
2012Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (born 1918)[†]
Brian Rossiter Crozier was a British historian, propagandist and journalist. He was also one of the central staff members of a secret propaganda department belonging to the UK Foreign Office, known as the Information Research Department (IRD) which republished and supported much of his work.
2012Bud Riley, American football player and coach (born 1925)[†]
Edward Jones "Bud" Riley Jr. was an American college football coach who served as an assistant coach at the University of Idaho and Oregon State University.
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Bread is a mainstay of the Syrian diet, eaten with every meal, and in Aleppo, paralyzed by two weeks of war, the bakery lines show that basic commerce has become a battleground.
In China, where pale skin is a sign of status and solar protection something of an obsession, stretchy ski masks are catching on as beachwear.
Watching the first Saudi woman compete in the Olympics, many in Riyadh expressed doubts about whether life for women would change in the Arab world.
As a torrent of faulty trades spewed from a Knight Capital Group trading program, no one at the firm managed to stop it for more than a half-hour.
Cass R. Sunstein tested his theories of human behavior and economic efficiency in the laboratory of the federal government, with few proposed rules escaping his gaze or his editor’s pen.
Traders, admittedly unsure at times, know their decisions can have an outsize effect on economic policy.
Despite the efforts of the 70,000 eager volunteers, confusing signs and the park’s size (618 acres) present a challenge in making it to an Olympic event.
Even competitors in popular sports are likely to find that life after gold is not very lucrative. And for the champions in sports like skeet shooting and archery, the odds are even higher.
Four men, friends from New York University, have spent much of the last 18 years living together in low-rent spaces they found in New York City.
A Staten Island farmhouse, on the property where Frederick Law Olmsted developed his style of landscape design, is now overseen by the city’s parks and recreation department.
Two recent books, published within a few weeks of each other, explore dalliances in wealthy school districts.
Oscar Pistorius, the South African double amputee who struggled for six years to reach the Olympics, made history by competing in a first-round 400-meter heat and advancing to the semifinals.