On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

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| December 2010

He led tours of its interior through December 17, 2010.

" Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt called for a tax increase on such products, although this had not yet happened as of December 2010.

Mirvish Productions presented the earlier Stratford production at the Canon Theatre, Toronto, in December 2010 through January 2011.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

In December 2010, it was announced that Glee actress Heather Morris was in talks for the lead role in the upcoming film.

In December 2010 Belle & Sebastian curated the sequel to the Bowlie Weekender in the form of Bowlie 2 presented by All Tomorrow's Parties.

* December 2010 North American blizzard

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The amended terms allowed former members of multiple societies which merge into one to maintain multiple entitlements to FSCS protection until 30 September 2009 ( later extended to 30 December 2010 ), so ( for example ) a member with £ 50, 000 in each of Nationwide, Cheshire and Derbyshire at the time of the respective mergers would retain £ 150, 000 of FSCS protection for their funds in the merged Nationwide.

On 31 December 2010 the general FSCS limit for retail deposits was increased to £ 85, 000 for banks and building societies and the transitional arrangements in respect of building society mergers came to an end.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

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Catherine Coleman and Valentina Tereshkova at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in December 2010.

Coleman launched on December 15, 2010 ( December 16 Baikonur time ), aboard Soyuz TMA-20 to join the Expedition 26 mission aboard the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

SOHO's 2000th comet was discovered by Polish amateur astronomer Michał Kusiak on 26 December 2010, and the numbers are expected to continue rising steadily for the foreseeable future.

On 22 December 2010, the UN declared the period from 2011 to 2020 as the UN-Decade on Biodiversity.

Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

* Mariette DiChristina, eighth editor-in-chief, appointed December 2009

In December 1918, Tucholsky took on the role of editor-in-chief of Ulk which he held until April 1920.

Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry ( January 22, 1913 – December 7, 2003 ) was an American evangelical Christian theologian who served as the first editor-in-chief of the magazine Christianity Today, which was established to serve as a scholarly voice for evangelical Christianity and a challenge to the liberal Christian Century.

Klaus Rainer Röhl ( born 1 December 1928 in Trockenhütte, Free City of Danzig ) is a pre-eminent German journalist and author, best known as founder, owner, publisher and editor-in-chief of konkret, the most influential magazine on the German political left from the 1960s to the early 1970s.

Russ Rymer was named editor-in-chief in early 2005, and under his tenure the magazine published more essays and extensive packages of articles on domestic violence ( July / August 2005 ), and the role of religion in politics ( December 2005 ).

Richard Horton, BSc MB FRCP FMedSci, ( born 29 December 1961 ) is the present editor-in-chief of The Lancet, a United Kingdom-based medical journal.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

Jesse Pearson was Vice's editor-in-chief for eight years until resigning in December, 2010.

In December 1930, Adler assigned the German engineer Josef Ganz, who was also editor-in-chief of Motor-Kritik magazine, as a consultant engineer.

Ten days after Năstase's defeat in the 13 December 2004 runoff elections, Ringier group moved the EZ editor-in-chief, Dan Turturică, to Bacău ( officially, to look into the possibility of starting a free newspaper there ) and began changing the editorial policy, to become a tabloid.

In December 2002, it was announced that " Gemstone Publishing had signed the license to publishing Disney comics in North America ," with ex-Gladstone Publishing editor-in-chief John Clark joining Gemstone in the same position over its Disney line.

* December 18: Marcel Pasche, 73, former Edipresse manager, 24 Heures editor-in-chief.

The longest working editor-in-chief was Marek Król ( 1989-2006 ) and until December 2006 he acted also as the president and majority shareholder in Wprost magazine.

Gebran, Ghassan's son, editor-in-chief of An Nahar from 2003 to 2005, who was elected to parliament for a Beirut constituency in the 2005 elections, was assassinated on the 12 December 2005 in Mkalles near Beirut in a car-bomb explosion.

* Poul Hartling ( December 19, 1973 – February 13, 1975 )

F & SF assembled more than a dozen special issues devoted to a single author, beginning with a special issue on Theodore Sturgeon ( September 1962 ), followed by Ray Bradbury ( May 1963 ), Isaac Asimov ( October 1966 ), Fritz Leiber ( July 1969 ), Poul Anderson ( April 1971 ), James Blish ( April 1972 ), Frederik Pohl ( September 1973 ), Robert Silverberg ( April 1974 ), Damon Knight ( November 1976 ), Harlan Ellison ( July 1977 ), Stephen King ( December 1990 ), Lucius Shepard ( March 2001 ), Kate Wilhelm ( September 2001 ), Barry N. Malzberg ( June 2003 ) and Gene Wolfe ( April 2007 ).

In December 2002 he succeeded former Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen as leader of the Social Democratic party ( Socialdemokraterne ).

Niels Poul " Tist " Nielsen ( December 25, 1891 – August 9, 1962 ) was a Danish football player, who is the joint all-time leading goalscorer for the Danish national team with 52 goals in only 38 matches, averaging 1. 37 goals per match, and won a silver medal with the Danish national team at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

He has been a member of Folketinget ( the Danish national parliament ) for the Conservative People's Party since 1984, and was Minister for the Environment from December 18, 1990 to January 24, 1993 as part of the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter IV and Foreign Minister from November 27, 2001 to February 23, 2010 as part of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I, II and III, and the first Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

* The Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen II ( 27 September 1994-30 December 1996 )

* The Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen III ( 30 December 1996-23 March 1998 )

He was Minister for Research 27 September 1994 to 30 December 1996 in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen II and Justice Minister from 30 December 1996 to 27 November 2001 in the Cabinets of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen III and IV.

He was Minister for Economic Affairs from 3 June 1988 to 18 December 1990 in the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter III.

After that he became Minister for Foreign Affairs from 25 January 1993 to 21 December 2000 in the Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen I, II, III, and IV ( except for the last part of the IV cabinet ).