Population in the News

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Population News Sunday December 10th 2006

U.S. has most prisoners in world due to tough laws
(Reuters via Yahoo! News: Sat, 09 Dec) Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.

Marketing makes inroads in world of virtual reality
(Poughkeepsie Journal: Sun, 10 Dec) One of the hottest target audiences for advertisers today literally is from another world. It's the digital population of an Internet-based virtual reality game, Second Life.

Chinese to climb ranks of world’s wealthy
(Financial Times: Fri, 08 Dec) China's population is so large and its economy growing so quickly that the Chinese are set to take over second place in the league table of the world's wealthy people in the next decade.

World Bank wrestles with its effectiveness, finds report by watchdog
(Gulf Times: Sun, 10 Dec) WASHINGTON: World Bank program-mes have struggled to help create jobs and reduce poverty in many developing countries now enjoying strong economic growth, because the poorest people lack the skills to work in sectors receiving aid, the bank's watchdog has said.

Poverty remains major challenge for Indonesia: World Bank
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Thu, 07 Dec) Nearly 50 percent of Indonesia's population still lives on less than two dollars a day despite progress in recovering from the economic crisis of 1998 which plunged millions of people back into poverty, the World Bank said.

Ebola virus threatens to wipe out gorilla population
(Independent: Fri, 08 Dec) The Ebola virus has killed more than 5,000 western lowland gorillas in the past four years according to scientists who warn that the world's largest ape is suffering a dramatic population decline that could soon lead to its total extinction.

Fiji: The way the world should never be
(Cyber Diver News Network: Sun, 10 Dec) SUVA, Fiji (10 Dec 2006) - Something messy and bloody is lurking ahead for Fiji. Military dictator Voreqe Bainimarama is giving off the stench of unfinished business and a coup or a mutiny or just plain old civil war will result.

AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are combining forces to give Africa’s
(SeedQuest: Sat, 09 Dec) Agriculture, Africa's economic key sector will receive a major boost through joint efforts between AVRDC "" The World Vegetable Center and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . The Foundation will support the World Vegetable Center's program to produce adapted vegetable varieties and establish vegetable seed sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.

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