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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (born 1933)[†]
Mary Ellen Dowd was an American stage, musical theatre and film actress, and singer, whose career spanned half a century. Beginning in Shakespeare roles and films in the 1950s, Dowd continued to perform on stage, film and television into the 21st century. A frequent performer on Broadway in the 1960s, Dowd originated the role of Morgan le Fay in the musical Camelot.
2012Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (born 1927)[†]
Sylvia Olga Fedoruk was a Canadian physicist, medical physicist, curler and the 17th lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, from 1988 to 1994.
2012Eugene Genovese, American historian and author (born 1930)[†]
Eugene Dominic Genovese was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He was noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His book Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize. He later abandoned the left and Marxism and embraced traditionalist conservatism. He wrote during the Cold War and his political beliefs were viewed by some as highly controversial at the time.
2012Sam Steiger, American journalist and politician (born 1929)[†]
Samuel Steiger was an American politician, journalist, political pundit. He served five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Arizona State Senate, and one term as mayor of Prescott, Arizona. Steiger also made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate, served as a special assistant to Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, and hosted political talk shows on both radio and television. Despite these accomplishments, Steiger is best known for two incidents: one, while he was a sitting congressman, was the 1975 killing of two burros; the second was painting a crosswalk between Prescott's courthouse and nearby Whiskey Row.
Former and current students at Stuyvesant High School say lower-level cheating is part of the culture, and students employ several rationales for choosing to be dishonest.
Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League, is caught between the fiasco of this season’s replacement officials and a lockout being enforced by deep-pocketed team owners.
The Bronx district attorney’s office has refused to prosecute some people who were arrested for trespassing at public housing projects after discovering that many were innocent.
The River North section of Chicago, once a dormant area of warehouses, has evolved into an aspiring rival to Silicon Valley, with Motorola Mobility the latest tech company to sign a lease.
In an effort to compete with companies like AT&T and Verizon, smaller telecommunications firms asked the F.C.C. to limit ownership of spectrum that is valuable in urban areas.
President Obama and Mitt Romney have very different ideas on reducing the budget deficit, but experts have doubts that either plan is up to the challenge.
In what could be the ultimate in personalized medicine, animal models, referred to by researchers as avatars, are being used to help determine the best treatment for a patient.
A planned expansion of highways and bridges in and around Louisville, Ky., raises a decades-old urban question: What revitalizes a city?
With a new eight-year deal in place, regular officials will work Thursday’s Ravens-Browns game, and the officials’ union will vote Friday to ratify the contract and work Sunday’s games.
Several nations have adopted or proposed a range of limits on high-speed trading, saying they have learned from problems in United States markets.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested an affiliate of Al Qaeda in North Africa was behind the attack on the United States mission in Benghazi.
Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis discuss their new collaboration, “Lighthouse/Lightning Rod,” which will open at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Thursday.