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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Donal Henahan, American journalist and critic (born 1921)[â ]
Donal Henahan was an American music critic and journalist who had lengthy associations with the Chicago Daily News and The New York Times. With the Times he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1986; he had been a finalist in 1982.
2012Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (born 1914)[â ]
Ivar Iversen was a Norwegian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in London.
2012Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (born 1944)[â ]
Anthony David Leighton Scott was a British film director and producer.
2012Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (born 1932)[â ]
Edmund Skellings was an American poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Florida from 1980 to 2012, and was succeeded by Peter Meinke.
The number of practicing psychologists in Argentina has been surging, making the country a world leader, at least when it comes to peopleâs broad willingness to bare their souls.
The militaryâs efforts to stop âinsider attacksâ are indications of how destabilizing the deaths of coalition troops at the hands of Afghan forces have become.
A congenial meeting in 2007 led to closer collaboration, especially in the last 18 months, as the Republican Party shifted more to the right.
The Jetsâ first-half statistics say it all: four first downs, four punts, five penalties, 47 net yards passing and an 0-for-6 mark on third-down conversions.
If Apple prevails in its legal dogfight with Samsung over patents, experts believe its rivals will have a stronger incentive to distinguish their smartphone and tablet products.
Martin Amisâs âLionel Asbo: State of Englandâ explores the relationship between a ruthless, psychotic thug and his nephew, as the two live out their lives in a brutish neighborhood.
âInbetweeners,â beginning Monday on MTV, is the American version of a British comedy about four losers and their clumsy efforts to navigate high school.
Top-ranked Roger Federer dominated No. 2 Novak Djokovic at the outset of a 6-0, 7-6 (7) victory for the Western & Southern Open championship.
Greeceâs prime minister, Antonis Samaras, is expected to seek an extension for meeting his countryâs budgetary and reform commitments, but Germany appears reluctant to grant further concessions.
The Mark Sanchez-Tim Tebow quandary is an afterthought, for now, after the Jetsâ offense seems to have picked up where it left off last season.
âHenry V,â âMuch Ado About Nothingâ and âCymbelineâ mix comedy and history at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.
2NE1, a girl group in the Spice Girls mold, incorporates plenty of rapping and some reggae, as well as production thatâs indebted to arena-size dance music.