U.S. population to top 300 million this month
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Some time this month, the number of Americans will surpass 300 million, a milestone that raises environmental impact questions for the only major industrial nation whose population is increasing substantially.
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Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released on Wednesday showing that the US population is, literally, growing.
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For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation's unique status among industrialized countries.
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_U.S. deaths as of Jan. 31, 2007: 3,080.
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The number of older Americans in the   work force hit a record high last month, and employment in that   age group has grown faster than any other, according to   research released on Wednesday.
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The number of Americans living in poverty increased last year, with nearly 36 million people below the poverty line, 1.3 million more than last year, the US Census Bureau reported yesterday.
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California is moving quickly to launch a &#36;3 billion stem cell research program approved by voters this month even as the United States is leading a campaign at the United Nations to ban all cloning of human embryos, including for stem cell studies.
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By next year, more than half the worldâs population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, a report said.
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Americans are getting taller on  average but they are much heavier too, according to government  figures released on Wednesday showing that the U.S. population  is, literally, growing.
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WASHINGTON: Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released on Wednesday showing that the US population is, literally, growing.
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U.S. factory growth stayed strong in  September according to reports on Friday, while construction  spending in the prior month hit a record high for a seventh  month in a row, showing the economy's expansion remains solid.
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The US economy added a better-than-expected 132,000 jobs last month, official figures show.
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The death toll in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region could rise six-fold by the end of the year &#151; hitting 300,000 &#151; because of worsening food shortages among refugees, a senior U.S. aid official said Monday.
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Â· Clinton's rival raises record breaking $32m in a monthÂ· Schwarzenegger endorses Republican frontrunner
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The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails or on probation or parole reached a record 7 million at the end of last year, accounting for about 3 percent of the nation's adult population, the Justice Department reported on Thursday.
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By Anonymous  Pike County continues to be ranked nationally as Pennsylvania's fastest-growing county, among counties over 10,000 population in percent increase, according to the 2006 county population estimates released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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The tally of billionaires around the globe reached a high of 946, their combined wealth growing 35 percent to $3.5 trillion