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November 16, 2006

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Headlines from November 16, 2006

In Certain Circles, Two Is a Crowd

By Stephanie Rosenbloom

Personal space is again subject of scientific interest as population increases, urban corridors become denser and the wealthy try to separate themselves from masses; recent study shows unwritten laws of personal space are so powerful, people even impose them on their cyber selves; scientists say people perceive violation of personal space with all senses; drawing; photos (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 2006, covering November 16, 2006.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Hannah Montana by Soundtrack

    Hannah Montana

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties by Barry Manilow

    The Greatest Songs Of The Sixties

    Barry Manilow

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Like Father; Like Son by Birdman & Lil Wayne

    Like Father; Like Son

    Birdman & Lil Wayne

    Last week
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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for Once Again by John Legend

    Once Again

    John Legend

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for FutureSex/LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake

    FutureSex/LoveSounds

    Justin Timberlake

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8

Notable Births

Mason Ramsey

2006Mason Ramsey, American singer[†]

Mason Blake Ramsey is an American singer. In March 2018, after gaining Internet fame from a viral video of him yodeling "Lovesick Blues" by Hank Williams at a Walmart, Ramsey was signed to Big Loud.

Notable Deaths

Milton Friedman

2006Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)[†]

Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s. Several students, young professors and academics who were recruited or mentored by Friedman at Chicago went on to become leading economists, including Gary Becker, Robert Fogel, and Robert Lucas Jr.

Yuri Levada

2006Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist and political scientist (born 1930)[†]

Yuri Alexandrovich Levada was a well known Russian sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the Levada Center.

Historical Context for November 16, 2006

In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]