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BAUMGARTNER :'
Skydive from the Edge of.)puce .
Attempting to break the sound , A
barrier in freefall,Austrian skydiver , ` ,,,
Felix Baumgartner jumps from a balloon +i\ -
1.28,100 feet above the earth on October
14,2012.He becomes the first person to go
supersonic without vehicular power.
1 Ba-Rock The Vote
On November 6.2012,President
Barrack Obama and Vice _-
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President Joe Biden were elected
to a second term.defeating
Republican candidate Mitt Romney
and his running mate Paul Ryan.
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Hurricane Sandy pummels the Eastern Seaboard,
doing significant damage to New York and New
Jersey,affecting more than 50 million people.
TWINIKIE
• 1 Will"Twinkie the Kid"Ride Into the Sunset?
--.r As more Americans enjoy healthier diets,sales of snack foods
r V decline,threatening the future of the Hostess Bakery,makers
of CupCakes,Ho Ho's and the iconic Twinkie.In efforts to
DROUGHT keep the brand alive,Hostess receives bids from companies
interested in buying all or part of their assets,especially their
recipe for delicious cream-filled cakes.
US Midwest Stays Thirsty
Unseasonably warm winters continue as an
's► ongoing drought in North America causes crops
to fail and food prices to rise.
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On August 6,2012,NASA•s �' In November,2012,The Walt Disney Air rL
I Company pays$4.05 billion to George 1
Martian-roving laborator I Lucas for his production company
Curiosity finishes its M I I i 1 I 111 LucasArts,which produced the Star C o m p a
104-million mile journey from .v or r Wars and Indiana Jones film series.
Earth with a dramatic landing
on Mars.The Rover begins
its 98-week mission hunting
for signs that Mars has ever ��.
sustained life forms,sending r- ;More Wads, Less Paper
photos and data back to wt ` Textbook publishers,technology companies and
scientists on Earth. ' schools work together to bring electronic textbooks
- 4 to more US classrooms in efforts to improve the
quality of education while lowering the costs to the
schools and cutting paper consumption.