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The influential people in 2012 (5)

（People's Daily Online） 08:20, January 06, 2013

The fearless Austrian Felix Baumgartner celebrates after successfully completing the parachuting skydive in eastern New Mexico, U.S., Oct. 14, 2012. The 43-year-old stuntman set new world records for the highest manned balloon flight, the highest freefall and for being the first man to break the sound barrier without an aircraft. (Xinhua/AP)

Edited and translated by Li Xiang, People's Daily Online

2012 has just gone. In this year, there are certain people whose laughers and tears affect people all over the world. They come and go on the global economic and political stages; they research in every field of human scientific technology; they emerge in the global entertainment trend; they live their lives with happiness or wait for another breakthrough in silence, or accept helplessly whatever life gives them. They make the whole world remember them in their own way.