When a Founder Is the Face of a Brand
By Stephanie Clifford
Tying an executive’s personality to his or her business can be highly successful until the executive ages, leaves, dies or gets into trouble.
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On this day
June 21, 2013
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Marijuana Crops in California Threaten Forests and Wildlife
By Felicity Barringer
California growers are acknowledging that like logging before it, their booming business is a threat to forests whose giant redwoods preside over vibrant ecosystems.
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Two Economies in Turmoil, for Different Reasons
By Binyamin Appelbaum
Fed officials are convinced they have done enough stimulus, but some critics see evidence in the persistence of high unemployment and low inflation that the Fed should do even more.
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Global Sell-off Shows Fed Reach Beyond the U.S.
By Nathaniel Popper
Tumbling stock, bond and commodity prices around the world in recent weeks are demonstrating just how reliant the global economy has become on the policies of the Federal Reserve.
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Negotiations With Taliban Could Hinge on Detainees
By Charlie Savage
Five prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could be the key to whether the talks the United States has long sought with the Taliban are a success.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 19, 2013, covering June 21, 2013.
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...Like Clockwork
Queens Of The Stone Age
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Random Access Memories
Daft Punk
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Sleeping with Sirens
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Based On A True Story ...
Blake Shelton
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True Believers
Darius Rucker
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Notable Deaths
2013James P. Gordon, American physicist and academic (born 1928)[†]
James Power Gordon was an American physicist known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral student at Columbia University under the supervision of C. H. Townes, development of the quantal equivalent of Shannon's information capacity formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the Gordon-Haus effect in soliton transmission, together with H. A. Haus in 1986. Gordon was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.
2013Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (born 1920)[†]
Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid was an American actor.
Historical Context for June 21, 2013
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]