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In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]
2015George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (born 1929)[â ]
George Clayton Johnson was an American science fiction writer, who co-wrote with William F. Nolan the novel Logan's Run, the basis for the MGM 1976 film. He also wrote television scripts for The Twilight Zone, and the first telecast episode of Star Trek, entitled "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story and screenplay on which the 1960 film Ocean's 11 and its 2001 remake were based.
2015Dorothy M. Murdock, American author and historian (born 1961)[â ]
Dorothy Milne Murdock, better known by her pen names Acharya S and D. M. Murdock, was an American writer supporting the Christ myth theory, which asserts that Jesus never existed as a historical person, but was rather a mingling of various pre-Christian myths, solar deities and dying-and-rising deities.
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Multimillion-dollar payouts are becoming more common for residents in rent-regulated apartments in exceptionally lucrative New York real estate.
A superintendentâs letter advocating a âwhole childâ approach to learning revealed a fissure that broke down roughly along racial lines, with white parents on one side and Asian-Americans on the other.
Beijingâs effort to revive ancient trade routes is causing geopolitical strains, with countries like Turkey increasingly worried about becoming too dependent on China.
Encouraged by the state, a burgeoning industry in unmanned aircraft draws on local technical expertise and pilots.
Tarkanian, the former basketball coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and Byers, the former head of the N.C.A.A., who both died in 2015, embodied a war of sports cultures.
The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi met with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif amid tentative steps by both nations to improve their historically tense relations.
A staggering number of people have been displaced, a large portion of them Syrians. Those moved to send financial aid can find some of the best bets here.
Businesses allow parents to leverage their wealth, contacts and the hope of investors to jump-start research into the diseases that afflict their children.
Cajas, or savings banks, have expanded their pawn-brokerage businesses as they seek alternative forms of funding while maintaining their social obligations.
For six New Yorkers age 85 and older, whose lives were followed throughout the year, old age is a mixture of happiness and sadness, with less time wasted on anger and worry.
Gary Alford, a tax investigator, was the first to identify the mastermind behind Silk Road, an online drug bazaar, but he was long ignored by law enforcement colleagues.
Jeroboam Bozeman, who is having a breakout season with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, radiates both heat and inner calm, a far cry from his rough upbringing.