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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (born 1934)[â ]
Jerry Nelson was an American puppeteer, best known for his work with The Muppets. Known for his wide range of characters and singing abilities, he performed Muppet characters on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies and specials.
2012Josepha Sherman, American anthologist and author (born 1946)[â ]
Josepha Sherman was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel The Shining Falcon.
2012A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.[â ]
On 23 August 2012, a hot air balloon on a commercial sightseeing flight crashed in stormy weather on the Ljubljana Marsh in central Slovenia, killing 6 of the 32 people on board.
Attempts to make sweeping changes to money-market mutual funds, which played a destabilizing role in the 2008 financial crisis, have been derailed.
Sales of existing homes were up in July, continuing a trend of several months that real estate agents said was good news for the housing market.
The Illinois-based energy producer Exelon Corporation has sometimes benefited from close ties with the Obama administration.
A cavernous California warehouse that serves as an informal office building for the tech-enamored doesnât comply with city regulations. But no one, including the city, wants to close it.
Larry Ellison, a technology billionaire, has bought the island for an undisclosed price. What he plans to do with the beautiful-yet-divided place is anyoneâs guess.
New polls show that Medicare ranks as the third most crucial issue to likely voters in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin, and that more respondents in each state trust President Obama to manage the program.
Jake Gyllenhaal is making his New York stage debut with Roundabout Theater Companyâs production of âIf There Is I Havenât Found It Yet.â
After being home-schooled and marrying at a young age, Nathan Harden was deeply shocked by the sexual culture at Yale.
Bruce Bawer argues that the contemporary American university is a place of hypocrisy and fear.
In this graphic novel an ambitious theater geek concentrates on friendship and creative fulfillment instead of boy craziness.
School, relationships, popularity. Navigating lifeâs uncertainties, the teenage girls in these novels are pushed to the brink.