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In trials, use of the experimental drugs reduced so-called bad cholesterol by about 40 to 70 percent in a matter of weeks, equivalent to the reduction achieved by the most effective statins like Lipitor.
“Uncertainty” has become the watchword over the last several years as an explanation — or perhaps an excuse — for the economy’s slow growth, for the lack of hiring by business and for the volatility in the stock market.
New Jersey and New York both said they would allow voters uprooted by Hurricane Sandy to cast provisional ballots anywhere in their states.
Several of the century-old wood-plank promenades integral to the identity of coastal communities in New Jersey and New York were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.
More and more groups are emerging to make protecting women — and shaming the do-nothing police — a cause, combating a longstanding problem in Egypt.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 31, 2012, covering November 6, 2012.
Jason Aldean
Mumford & Sons
Brandy
Scotty McCreery
Jamey Johnson
2012Joel Connable, American journalist and actor (born 1973)[†]
Joel Connable was an American television host, news anchor, and reporter for KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington. He also worked as a travel journalist, running a travel website and a company called Travel TV Inc. He was a former evening news anchor at NBC6 in Miami. He was named "Best News Anchor," by the New Times Magazine in 2009. Connable made regular appearances as a travel expert on Fox News, CBS television stations, KTLA, the BBC, and other television networks. Connable also anchored and reported the news for CBS in Los Angeles and South Carolina as well as for MSNBC and Early Today, on NBC. Connable was also a former private pilot and former paramedic from Long Island, New York. He was also a writer for the Huffington Post and had a weekly travel radio show on Cox Radio Stations.
2012Clive Dunn, English actor (born 1920)[†]
Clive Robert Bertram Dunn was an English actor. Although he was only 48 and one of the youngest cast members, he was cast in a role many years his senior, as the elderly Lance Corporal Jones in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, which ran for nine series and 80 episodes between 1968 and 1977.
2012Frank J. Prial, American journalist and author (born 1930)[†]
Frank J. Prial was a journalist and author, and the wine columnist for The New York Times for 25 years, writing the weekly "Wine Talk" column largely since 1972 until his retirement in 2004.
2012Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.[†]
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, she has also served as the secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017. Baldwin has been the dean of the United States congressional delegation from Wisconsin since 2023, when Representative Ron Kind retired.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]