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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Marek Niit, Estonian sprinter[†]
Marek Niit is a sprinter from Estonia who won a gold medal at the 200 metres at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. He is also the current national record holder in 100 metres, 200 meters and 400 meters.
LEAD: THE crisis in the Persian Gulf is deepening, assuming more than ever the character of a religious war by Iran against fellow Moslems. Last week it shook the Islamic world, threatening many conservative Arab regimes.
LEAD: A LARGE private lake south of the nuclear power plant in Shoreham that residents have tried to protect from encroachment and pollution for almost 40 years is being threatened, they say, by a proposed town house development, setting off a classic Long Island confrontation.
LEAD: ALL around him, there is youth that can never be his again. The first baseman is 26 years old, the third baseman 27, the rookie pitcher just 23. But Tommy John does not seem out of place as he sits among them, dressing, talking, eating in the visitors' clubhouse at Tiger Stadium when the day is done.
LEAD: Revelations in the Iran-contra hearings, including details of amateurism and bungling, have shaken the confidence of foreign officials in American secret operations, Government officials say. They add that the disclosures have prompted the intelligence services of some friendly nations to reduce the amount of information shared with the United States.
LEAD: Brooklyn will edge closer to the 21st century with two planned health facilities, one at a hospital and the other at a university, that are designed to incorporate the latest advances in medical science.
LEAD: CARRYING the American flag with his one hand was not a problem for Jim Abbott yesterday. He has handled tougher chores in far more demanding arenas.
LEAD: The Old Executive Office Building in Washington -just the ''Old E.O.B.'' to locals - has been the workplace, at various stages of their careers, of William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower and, more recently, Adm. John M. Poindexter and Lieut.
LEAD: SINCE Massachusetts began its Agricultural Preservation Restriction program in the 1970's, the state has saved 19,000 acres of farmland from development, said James P. Alicata, the chief of the state Bureau of Land Use. He said he is hopeful that more land will be saved with additional funding from the
LEAD: NONSENSE is properly a negative thing - a lack of sense. By sense we mean not what the senses will accept but what seems logical to the brain. A sentence makes sense if it is a logical structure. Kill the structure and you have nonsense. The elements of a sentence - words - make sense when they relate to things you know.
LEAD: IS it a miracle befitting the Holy Land? Some crazy Old Testament economics? Or nothing but blue smoke and mirrors, an illusion that will soon be exposed?
LEAD: WORK has been completed on a 4.5-mile pipeline to bring water to a large-scale residential development under construction at the northwest fringe of this fast-growing city.