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The latest play from the Mad Ones finds the seeds of momentous social change in a 1979 focus group about a kids’ television show.
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The latest play from the Mad Ones finds the seeds of momentous social change in a 1979 focus group about a kids’ television show.
An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.
A large immigrant work force helps run Mr. Trump’s resorts, an embarrassing reality for a president who has railed against undocumented migrants.
The U.S. and Europe said they are preparing to impose tit-for-tat tariffs as part of a long dispute over aerospace subsidies.
Amazon’s “Made in Heaven” complicates the glamour of wealthy Indian weddings by confronting patriarchy, homophobia and class.
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2019Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (born 1926)[†]
Charles Lincoln Van Doren was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One. Terminated by NBC, he joined Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. in 1959, becoming a vice-president and writing and editing many books before retiring in 1982.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]