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individuals and organizations in Zimbabwe associated with the regime of President Robert Mugabe. Computer science professor Randy Pausch, whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died in Chesapeake, Va. at age 47. The Federal Communications Commission formally approved Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s $3.3 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.
• One year ago: President Barack Obama embraced some degree of control on the sale of weapons but also told the National Urban League in New Orleans he would also seek a national consensus on combating violence. NBC announced it had topped the $1 billion mark in advertising sales for the upcoming Olympic Games in London, topping the $850 million in ad sales for the Beijing games in 2008.
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• Today's Birthdays: Actress Barbara Harris is 78. Rock musician Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds) is 70. Rock musician Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 62. Singer-musician Jem Finer (The Pogues) is 58. Model-actress Iman is 58. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley ("Curtis") is 56. Rock musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 55. Actress-singer Bobbie Eakes is 52. Actress Katherine Kelly Lang is 52. Actress Illeana Douglas is 48. Country singer Marty Brown is 48. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 46. Actress Wendy Raquel Robinson is 46. Rock musician Paavo Lotjonen (PAH'-woh LAHT'-joh-nehn) (Apocalyptica) is 45. Actor D.B. Woodside is 44. Actress Miriam Shor is 42. Actor Jay R. Ferguson ("Mad Men") is 39. Actor James Lafferty is 28. Actress Shantel VanSanten is 28. Actor Michael Welch is 26. Classical singer Faryl Smith is 18.
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• Thought for Today: "No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side." - Jascha Heifetz (YAH'-shah HY'-fetz), Russian-born American violinist (1901-1987).
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