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June 16, 2010

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Saving Energy, and Its Cost

By David Leonhardt

A cap-and-trade system for power plants has great economic strength, but it also has the great political weakness of forcing the acknowledgment of related costs.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 16, 2010, covering June 16, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for To The Sea by Jack Johnson

    To The Sea

    Jack Johnson

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber

    My World 2.0

    Justin Bieber

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  3. 3
    Album cover for Glee: The Music; Volume 3: Showstoppers: by Soundtrack

    Glee: The Music; Volume 3: Showstoppers:

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for Need You Now by Lady Antebellum

    Need You Now

    Lady Antebellum

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    19
  5. 5
    Album cover for Raymond V Raymond by Usher

    Raymond V Raymond

    Usher

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10

Notable Deaths

2010Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (born 1932)[†]

Marc Louis Bazin was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was prime minister of Haiti appointed on June 4, 1992, by the military government that had seized power on September 30, 1991.

Maureen Forrester

2010Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer and academic (born 1930)[†]

Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.

Ronald Neame

2010Ronald Neame, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1911)[†]

Ronald Neame CBE, BSC was an English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1943) he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects. During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), and Oliver Twist (1948), receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing.

Historical Events

Bhutan

2010Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.[†]

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, in the Eastern Himalayas between China to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast. With a population of over 727,145 and a territory of 38,394 square kilometres (14,824 sq mi), Bhutan ranks 133rd in land area and 160th in population. Bhutan is a democratic constitutional monarchy with a King as the head of state and a prime minister as the head of government. The Je Khenpo is the head of the state religion, Vajrayana Buddhism.

Historical Context for June 16, 2010

In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]