Population in the News

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Population News Saturday December 23rd 2006

Study Projects Flu Pandemic May Kill 81 Million Worldwide
(Fox News: Fri, 22 Dec) Researchers applied estimated levels of deaths from 1918 Spanish flu epidemic to worldwide population data from 2004; study estimates 96 percent of deaths would occur in developing world.

Special visits help keep Old St. Nick happy 12/24/06
(News-Herald: Fri, 22 Dec) It's customary for me to remind you that Santa Claus has deputies all over the world. The population continues to grow, after all, and even the best-trained and fed reindeer can't possibly get St. Nick to all of them on Christmas Eve.

World Cup "" more questions than answers
(The Royal Gazette: Fri, 22 Dec) JOURNALISTS who came away from Wednesday's much anticipated Bermuda Cricket Board press conference at which we were expecting to learn the names of those players who will represent the Island at next year's World Cup, likely did so with more questions than answers.

Largest study of Indian genetic variation underway
(ANI via Yahoo! India News: Fri, 22 Dec) Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): The genetic variations in India's population are mind-boggling, and though they account for one sixth's of the world's entire population, they have so far been underrepresented in studies related to genetic diseases. But now, all that is going to change. A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), ...

Ethiopians Face Possibility Of War
(CBS News: Sat, 23 Dec) Many Ethiopians recoil at the thought of another war, but Ethiopia's leaders are increasingly arguing this nation, with its population divided among Christians and Muslims, is being forced to fight by militant Muslim Somalis who have declared jihad.

GLACIER FOOD-CRISIS FEAR
(New York Post: Fri, 22 Dec) NEW DELHI - A team of Chinese and Indian scientists plans to chart Himalayan glaciers feared to be rapidly melting because of global warming - threatening rivers that help feed one-sixth of the world's population. Two expeditions, announced...

State shrinks by 5%, report shows
(New Orleans Times-Picayune: Fri, 22 Dec) A Census Bureau report released Thursday shows that the state's population shrank by 220,000 people, or 5 percent, in the year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the largest one-year migration from an American state since the wholesale community disruptions of the World War II era, the bureau said.

Researchers make progress in studying genetic traits of India-born populations
(EurekAlert!: Fri, 22 Dec) Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 21, 2006 - Despite the fact that the people of India constitute more than one-sixth of the world's entire population, they have been underrepresented in studies related to genetic diseases.

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