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		<title>Slowing population growth could help in the battle against global warming, UN agency says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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UN: Fight climate change with free condoms

LONDON — The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.
The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising fertility rates, immigration push Britain&#8217;s population over 61 million for 1st time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Britain&#8217;s population took its biggest jump in almost half a century last year, as a baby boom made new births rather than immigration the main contributor to growth for the first time in a decade.

Government figures show that 791,000 babies were born in the year to mid-2008 — 33,000 more than the year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once nonexistent, number of centenarians in the world will reach nearly 6 million by 2050</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/once-nonexistent-number-of-centenarians-in-the-world-will-reach-nearly-6-million-by-2050-114153/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hope Yen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — It&#8217;s starting to get crowded in the 100-year-olds&#8217; club.

Once virtually nonexistent, the world&#8217;s population of centenarians is projected to reach nearly 6 million by midcentury. That&#8217;s pushing the median age toward 50 in many developed nations and challenging views of what it means to be old and middle-age.
The number of centenarians already has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Census: With fewer people moving, largest US cities now outpace rest of nation in growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hope Yen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Reversing a decade-long trend, many of America&#8217;s largest cities are now growing more quickly than the rest of the nation, yet another sign of an economic crisis that is making it harder for people to move.

Census data released Wednesday highlight a city resurgence in coastal regions and areas of the Midwest and Northeast, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migration, not just &#8216;natural growth,&#8217; boosting Jewish settler numbers in West Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Teibel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MAALEH ADUMIM, West Bank — Israelis moving to the West Bank accounted for more than a third of settler population growth in recent years, government statistics show, undercutting Israel&#8217;s argument that it is continuing settlement construction only to accommodate growing families already living there.

The so-called &#8220;natural growth&#8221; rationale for building on land the Palestinians claim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing immigration of Asians, Hispanics to delay by years when US minorities become majority</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/slowing-immigration-of-asians-hispanics-to-delay-by-years-when-us-minorities-become-majority-62308/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 12:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hope Yen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Deterred by immigration laws and the lackluster economy, the population growth of Hispanics and Asians in the U.S. has slowed unexpectedly, causing the government to push back estimates on when minorities will become the majority by as much as a decade.

Census data released Thursday also showed that fewer Hispanics were migrating to suburbs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citing 9 billion people in 2050, US envoy speaks of &#8216;renewed commitment&#8217; to slowing growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edith M. Lederer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The new U.S. ambassador for global women&#8217;s issues pledged Thursday the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;deep commitment&#8221; to a U.N. blueprint aimed at slowing the world&#8217;s population explosion and empowering women.

At the heart of the action plan adopted at a U.N. population conference in Cairo 15 years ago is a demand for women&#8217;s equality through [...]]]></description>
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