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Although global demand for solar panels and wind turbines has grown rapidly in recent years, China’s manufacturing capacity grew faster, creating an oversupply and a price war.
A conviction of securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud could be overturned because it might not apply to foreign transactions.
President Obama and Mitt Romney confronted what one feared and the other hoped was an altered campaign after a debate in which Mr. Obama’s performance was widely panned.
“Grace,” Craig Wright’s tale of a Christian entrepreneur in Florida, stars Michael Shannon and Paul Rudd.
Constrained by scarcer financing but aided by better technology, new businesses have fewer employees than they did a decade ago, posing a worrying trend for employment.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 3, 2012, covering October 5, 2012.
P!nk
Various Artists
The Killers
Dave Matthews Band
Little Big Town
2012Keith Campbell, English biologist and academic (born 1954)[†]
Keith Henry Stockman Campbell was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. He was Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingham. In 2008, he received the Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences jointly with Ian Wilmut and Shinya Yamanaka for "their works on the cell differentiation in mammals".
2012Vojin Dimitrijević, Croatian-Serbian lawyer and activist (born 1932)[†]
Vojin Dimitrijević was a law professor, public intellectual, and a prominent Serbian human rights activist and international law expert.
2012James W. Holley III, American dentist and politician (born 1926)[†]
James W. Holley III was an American politician and dental surgeon. Holley became the first Black mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia, and ultimately the city's longest serving mayor, although both his mayoral terms ended with his being recalled from office. Thus he became the only known politician in American history to be twice recalled until Fullerton, California Councilman Don Bankhead was recalled in June 2012.
2012Edvard Mirzoyan, Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (born 1921)[†]
Edvard Mik'aeli Mirzoyan was an Armenian composer.
2012Claude Pinoteau, French director and screenwriter (born 1925)[†]
Claude Pinoteau was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. His sister was the actress Arlette Merry, and his brother was the director Jacques Pinoteau.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]