Land reform: still a dream for Nepal farmers
(Sunday Observer: Sat, 08 Sep) The population growth rate in the early eighties stood at 2.5 per cent while agricultural growth was nearly three percent. The then agricultural growth superseded the population growth rate by 0.5 per cent. But the case turned out to be different when entering the new millennium.

Boys without girls are bad news, as China is about to discover
(The Scotsman: Fri, 07 Sep) TWO decades ago, China worried so much about the population explosion that loomed over its head that it instituted its now famous one-child policy: couples were allowed to have only a single child and any extra conceptions had to be aborted.

Immigration Seen Adding 105 Million to U.S. Population by 2060
(U.S. Department of State: Tue, 04 Sep) Since the founding of the United States, the population of the country has been growing at a rate that some scientists say is unprecedented in human history. Some believe that this population explosion made the United States one of the most prosperous countries of the world. But others point to congestion, urban sprawl, traffic, pollution, loss of open spaces and the increase in greenhouse gas ...

The Biz of Healing Hospitals
(The Charlotte Observer: Sat, 08 Sep) Last summer, Todd Johnson's Hospital Partners of America did its biggest deal -- the $125 million purchase of a Houston hospital. This summer, the Charlotte company began managing two Dallas hospitals and will soon have them under a 25-year operating lease. That gives Hospital Partners, which Johnson started late in 2002, a total of seven hospitals that it owns or operates. Six are in Texas, ...