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After nine months of troubled contract negotiations, East Coast longshoremen are threatening a strike beginning Sunday that would shut seaports from Massachusetts to Texas.
Amazon’s cloud computing service went down for Netflix for much of Christmas Eve, highlighting potential difficulties in the technology.
After the hardships of workers in China’s electronics factories were exposed to a global audience, working conditions have changed.
A jury in Pittsburgh ruled Marvell Technology had sold billions of semiconductors using technology developed at Carnegie Mellon without a license.
For hundreds of Americans enmeshed in the costly, complicated adoption process, President Vladimir V. Putin’s decision had a deeply personal effect.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 26, 2012, covering December 27, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Bruno Mars
Michael Buble
One Direction
Rod Stewart
2012Harry Carey, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)[†]
Henry George Carey Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films, including several John Ford Westerns, as well as numerous television series.
2012Lloyd Charmers, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (born 1938)[†]
Lloyd Charmers was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, keyboard player and record producer.
2012Tingye Li, Chinese-American physicist and engineer (born 1931)[†]
Tingye Li was a Chinese-American scientist in the fields of microwaves, lasers and optical communications. His innovative work at AT&T pioneered the research and application of lightwave communication, and has had a far-reaching impact on information technology for over four decades.
2012Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (born 1924)[†]
Archie Edmiston Roy FRSE, FRAS was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.
2012Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (born 1934)[†]
Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was a United States Army general. While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War against Ba'athist Iraq.
2012Salt Walther, American race car driver (born 1947)[†]
David "Salt" Walther was a driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He also drove NASCAR stock cars and unlimited hydroplane boats, and was a car owner in USAC. Walther is best remembered for a crash at the start of the 1973 Indianapolis 500 that left him critically injured. He recovered from his injuries, returned in 1974, and placed 9th in the 1976 race. He also co-drove a car with Bob Harkey to 10th place in 1975.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]