 Posted: 19-06-2007 , 06:37 GMT
(Mena Report: Sun, 24 Jun) The direct healthcare costs in the GCC region are expected to increase fivefold by 2025 to US$60 billion from US$12 billion now, with health risk factors, ageing, population growth and medical inflation contributing to the cost escalation.
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 Local humane society hopes cat problems are behind them
(KY3 Springfield: Sun, 24 Jun) After dealing with mass euthanizations, then overpopulation, the Southwest Missouri Humane Society will begin taking cats tomorrow. A killer virus shut down adoptions, then the humane society reopened only to take in more cats than it could handle.
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 Interactive map: EU’s population growth
(Financial Times: Fri, 22 Jun) Europeans are richer, travel more, own and spend more, and live longer than they did fifty years ago. But instead of seeking to pass on their good fortune, the European Union’s citizens have shown a marked disinclination to have childen.
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 Cutts Thinks Google Is Human
(WebProNews: Mon, 25 Jun) Matt Cutts says there is more to Google than the churning of computers. He talked about the role of people in the search process. Cutts Thinks Google Is Human "Soylent Green is people!" -- if you haven't seen Soylent Green by now, consider the ending spoiled. Google's approach to including humans in the search process offers a much friendlier approach than ...
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 Family farm owners appeal to borough
(Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman: Thu, 21 Jun) MAT-SU - The Mat-Su Valley needs room to grow - for both its annual 4 percent population growth and the agriculture that feeds it. In case after case where these two needs meet, the seeds of conflict are being planted.
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 ETHNIC MINORITY Lao-born Hmong get new home
(The Nation: Sun, 24 Jun) Security officials in Phetchabun yesterday relocated more than 7,000 Lao-born Hmong immigrants to a new residential site four kilometres away from where they had lived with Thai-born Hmongs.
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 Population growth hides Mathis’ achievement
(Tacoma News Tribune: Wed, 20 Jun) Dear Jerry: I’ve loved Johnny Mathis since his release of “Wonderful Wonderful.” I was shocked to read that none of his recordings made a list of the Top 300 best-selling U.S. albums, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
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 Population and pregnancy
(Santa Maria Times: Sat, 23 Jun) The number of humans on this planet in the year 1000 was about 300 million, in 1200 about 500 million, in 1700 about 650 million and in 1830 we reached our first billion.
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