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October 2, 2012

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Headlines from October 2, 2012

Conflict Over ‘Love Hotel’ Sale

By Hiroko Tabuchi and Stephanie Strom

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.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 2012, covering October 2, 2012.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Away From The World by Dave Matthews Band

    Away From The World

    Dave Matthews Band

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  2. 2
    Album cover for Tornado by Little Big Town

    Tornado

    Little Big Town

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    Peak
    2
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    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Tempest by Bob Dylan

    Tempest

    Bob Dylan

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    3
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    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Carpenter by The Avett Brothers

    The Carpenter

    The Avett Brothers

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    4
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    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for Coexist by The xx

    Coexist

    The xx

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    Peak
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Notable Deaths

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.

Historical Context for October 2, 2012

In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]