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LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 17 -- An experiment involving a nuclear blast 100,000,000 miles in space is being actively considered in the scientific community, Dr. Edward Teller disclosed today.
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1959Susan Faludi, American journalist, author and feminist[†]
Susan Charlotte Faludi is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance". She was also awarded the Kirkus Prize in 2016 for In the Darkroom, which was also a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]