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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (born 1939)[†]
Nguyễn Chí Thiện was a North Vietnamese dissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist governments of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam, before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States.
2012Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (born 1933)[†]
Charles Conliff Mende Roach was a Canadian civil rights lawyer and an activist in the Black community in Toronto.
2012J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (born 1943)[†]
John Philippe Rushton was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for promoting anti-Black racism through his widely discredited research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and other purported racial correlations.
Private equity executives, after spending the last several years largely on the sidelines amid the economic uncertainty, have begun to be anxious that they may need to go on a shopping spree.
Four young memoirists, including Steven Rinella, author of “Meat Eater,” have largely taken to hunting, they say, for ethical reasons.
Cargill sold 10 properties in Japan last week for $20 million, but a partner said the deal was improper because its management contract had two more years to go.
A bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around an ambitious three-step process to avert automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts facing the country in January.
Once ambitious American plans for ending the war in Afghanistan are now being replaced by the far more modest goal of setting the stage for Afghans to work out a deal among themselves.
Offshore arrangements made through Mitt Romney’s former company, Bain Capital, were part of tax-avoidance strategies that have enhanced his income.
Reflections on the continuity of past, present and future are embedded in many films in the New York Film Festival’s second week.
A Pennsylvania ruling was the latest and most significant in a series of legal victories for those opposed to laws that they charge would limit access to polls in this presidential election.
Deutsche Telekom said on Tuesday that it was in talks to buy MetroPCS and merge it with its T-Mobile USA unit, as the German telecommunications giant sought to bolster its flagging business in the United States.
Many of the gains came at Toyota and Honda, the two big Japanese manufacturers that suffered major product shortages after last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Military and counterterrorism teams are preparing dossiers in the first step toward preparing for orders from President Obama.
Social media shopping sites are offering payments to shoppers who post product links that drive Web traffic and sales to retailers.