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Maxim, a magazine featuring adolescent humor and plenty of scantily clad actresses, has courted the armed forces, veterans and their families as a source of growing readership.
The controversial purchase of a Silicon Valley-based DNA sequencing company by a Chinese firm has raised concerns about American competitiveness in a field that is becoming a big business.
Dai Xianglong oversaw the insurance industry when a company his relatives helped control made an investment that came to be worth billions.
Given the number of changes in the media industry, the coming year is particularly important for a group of leaders who confront steep challenges ahead.
While his peers and fans praised Ryan Freel’s headfirst approach throughout an eight-year career in the major leagues, the person closest to him became tormented by it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 26, 2012, covering December 31, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Bruno Mars
Michael Buble
One Direction
Rod Stewart
2012Tarak Mekki, Tunisian businessman and politician (born 1958)[†]
Tarak Mekki was a Tunisian businessman and political figure. He declared himself as an opponent to the president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and a candidate to his succession. Mekki was one of the few political opponents calling for an immediate end to the Ben Ali regime, and his prosecution for corruption and torture.
2012Jovette Marchessault, Canadian author and playwright (born 1938)[†]
Jovette Marchessault was a Canadian writer and artist from Quebec, who worked in a variety of literary and artistic domains including novels, poetry, drama, painting and sculpture. An important pioneer of lesbian and feminist literature and art in Canada, many of her most noted works were inspired by other real-life women in literature and art, including Violette Leduc, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Emily Carr, Anaïs Nin and Helena Blavatsky.
2012Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (born 1926)[†]
Günter Rössler was a German photographer who made a name for himself especially in the field of nude art photography. A pioneer of nude photography in East Germany and notable fashion photographer, Rössler was often referred to by the media as the Helmut Newton of East Germany, stylized since Playboy published in 1984 a photo-gallery titled: Mädchen der DDR. Rössler however, never liked this comparison with Newton, saying: "with Newton the pose dominates, with me it is about the highest possible authenticity of the girls". Rössler significantly contributed to the history of German photography in the second half of the twentieth century, earning him recognition not only as a great photographer, but also as the "old master of German nude photography".
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]