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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Evan Peters, American actor[†]
Evan Thomas Peters is an American actor. He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film Clipping Adam and starred in the ABC science fiction series Invasion from 2005 to 2006. Peters gained wide recognition for playing multiple roles over ten seasons in Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series American Horror Story, from 2011 to 2021.
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LEAD: THE people of central Newark have a dream: a big, modern supermarket for their neighborhood.
LEAD: These are times that try even the most firmly anchored stock market strategies. An air of unreality pervades the giddy rises of the last two weeks, leaving professional strategists delighted, but flinching at the thought that just at the moment they throw caution to the wind the market could dive.
LEAD: Iranian warships in the Persian Gulf are using Italian-made Sea Killer missiles against oil tankers in night attacks for the first time, according to United States intelligence officials.
LEAD: Governor Cuomo will propose building two new state prisons, to accommodate a total of 1,400 inmates, in the budget plan he will present Tuesday, law-enforcement officials said today.
LEAD: Federal drug investigators uncovered evidence last fall that the American flight crews covertly ferrying arms to the Nicaraguan rebels were smuggling cocaine and other drugs on their return trips to the United States, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: Salomon Inc., one of the nation's major investment banking houses, said yesterday that it expected its fourth-quarter earnings to fall about 40 percent, to $80 million, from $132 million in the comparable period in 1985.
LEAD: WOMEN who choose to become surrogate mothers have motivations ranging from selflessness to egocentricity, from guilt to joy, according to the handful of researchers who have studied them.
LEAD: O'Connor's Trip Reassessed Jewish leaders met for three hours with John Cardinal O'Connor and reconsidered their criticism of his trip to the Middle East. Page B1. New Head of Knopf Named Ajai Singh Mehta, the director of Pan Books in London, will succeed Robert A. Gottlieb as president and editor in chief of Alfred A.
LEAD: The small investor is coming back. Tempted by a bull market streak that is verging on a new record, Wall Street's retail customers are stepping out on their own to buy stocks at a faster clip than they have for several years.
LEAD: About 2,800 nonteaching employees at Rutgers University walked off the job today, disrupting the first day of spring classes for about 48,500 students on three campuses.
LEAD: The members of the University Club, the largest all-male club in New York City, have voted not to comply with a city law requiring admission of women as members.
LEAD: Dennis Conner, who lost the America's Cup to Australia in 1983, got his chance to bring yachting's most prestigious trophy back to the United States when he defeated New Zealand today in the challenger's final.