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LEAD: Shatieka Kingsberry, now 13 years old, came to Eve Brown's house for dinner six years ago and never left. ''They said they were going to stop by for dinner,'' Ms. Brown said yesterday as she prepared her Thanksgiving table. ''But it wasn't really that. There was no place for her, so she ended up here.
LEAD: There's state-of-the-art polling, and then there's steamed-pot-shrimp polling.
LEAD: The collapse of stock prices last month touched off a surge in demand for news about business and finance. Consumers cleaned out newsstands and eagerly scanned the airwaves for the latest reports of market activity around the world.
LEAD: There are more than 25 rooms in City Hall, and of them, the mayor's office is no doubt the most important. But just down the hall is a small chamber whose size belies its significance. It is called Room 9 and, for generations, it has been home to the City Hall press corps.
LEAD: For more than 10 hours every weekday, Assem Haddad stands on 48th Street and hawks new copies of Dr. Seuss's most popular books at prices that would make most book dealers blanch: two for $5. On a good day, he says, he can sell $400 worth.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 1987, covering November 27, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Bruce Springsteen
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
1987Luigi Datome, Italian basketball player[†]
Luigi "Gigi" Datome is an Italian former professional basketball player. Standing at 2.03 m, he played at the small forward and power forward positions. Datome was an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2016.
1987Lashana Lynch, English actress[†]
Lashana Lynch is a British actress. She first gained recognition for her role as Rosaline Capulet in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed (2017) going on to win the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2022. She has had roles in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021), Matilda the Musical (2022), The Woman King (2022), and Bob Marley: One Love (2024), as well as the television series Day of the Jackal (2024). She has since portrayed Maria Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) beginning with Captain Marvel (2019).
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]