Population in the News

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Population News Tuesday December 12th 2006

US prisoners account for 25% of the world's incarcerated population
(Radio Singapore International: Tue, 12 Dec) The nation that preaches to the world about human rights has the most number, per capita of prisoners of any country. It's the United States. A government report issued by the U-S Justice Department shows that a record 7 million people, or one in every 32 Americans, is in jail or on probation after jail.

“Institution That Increases its Respectability”
(Zaman Online: Tue, 12 Dec) "Now that we live in a global village, we exist in nearly all countries of the world. As a nation, we are everywhere with our population, institutions and schools. Every single place is of more interest to us than yesterday.

NFU tells the world that farming matters to Britain FWi
(Farmers Weekly Interactive: Tue, 12 Dec) The NFU has launched a major new campaign to explain why farming is becoming more, not less, important to Britain today. Called " Why Farming Matters " the campaign is intended to de-bunk the notion that mainstream food production can be allowed to migrate to other parts of the world.

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.

The unplanned growth of Dhaka
(Financial Express: Tue, 12 Dec) THE visions of the future of Dhaka or the higher status to be acquired by it among the world's biggest urban concentrations, as one of the top ten cities of the world in terms of its population size in the near future, should make the people of the country proud of their capital city.

Accounts With a Conscience?
(Business Today Egypt: Tue, 12 Dec) With a population of nearly 80 million, more than 90% of which is Muslim, you'd think Egypt would at least be among the top 10 countries in the world in the field of Islamic banking services.

Gunparade March
(Anime News Network: Tue, 12 Dec) In 1945, World War II came to an abrupt end when Earth was invaded by otherworldly beasts called Genjyu. Fifty years on, humanity continues to fight this menace, but a depleted population has forced Japan to send high school students into battle.

Green Revolution feeds the world, but not Africa
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Mon, 11 Dec) Stanford University scientist Paul Ehrlich thought there was no chance to feed humanity. "Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now," wrote Ehrlich in his 1968 book "The Population Bomb."

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