Where have all the people gone?
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While media and political attention is on the threat of outsourcing, the reality is that outsourcing is a sideshow in a much larger event.
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But is anyone on the other end of the line?
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America saw 403, 300 hi-tech jobs disappear between April 2001 and April 2004. More than half the jobs lost were lost after the recession was pronounced officially over, by the National Bureau of Economic Research, in November 2001.
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The women began disappearing from Vancouver's seediest streets in the 1980s, hookers and dope addicts abandoned on the margins of society. Desperate friends and families were outraged when the police appeared to do little to find them.
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Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent. The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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By Arman Ahmad; Regina Lee; Phuah Ken Lin; Siti Nurbaiyah Nadzmi; Sean  KUANTAN: Sungai Galing is no more a source of life.  There are few fish in the waterway which used to be a favourite spot for fishermen.
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Nearly all of  Fallujah's 250,000 residents emptied the city  in advance of the military operation. The city partially reopened to residents on Dec. 23, and U.S. military officials now estimate that 60,000 people have come back, but not everyone who has returned has opted to stay.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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Ministers order review after figures show almost 800,000 empty places
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The Americans have run out of explanations, but not excuses.
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The winds of change are upon us.
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Growing numbers of people are being squeezed out of the housing market, researchers have concluded.
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The Soylent wing of the Green movement examined The enviroloonies seem to have found their way out of the asylum again: this time to tell us that 70 per cent of Britons should die for the sake of Gaia. That's not quite the way they put it, of course. Rather, the Optimum Population Trust (there's a pedantic part of me that wants to tell them it's Optimal) tells us that the maximum sustainable population of the UK is 17 million: given that there are north of 60 million currently, we can only avert the coming End Times if the extra pop their clogs soonest.â¦
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And a nation of immigrants rediscovers the world.
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In Thailand, more than four thousand people are now listed as missing following the weekend tsunami, a big jump on earlier estimates of 15-hundred missing.
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UPDATE, SUN 9PM: More than a million people have left their homes in Cuba, as Hurricane Ivan approaches. The ferocious storm is headed that way, after ripping through the Cayman Islands, tearing off roofs, flooding homes and causing general havoc.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Hong Kong Correspondent Roland Lim. HONG KONG : A total of 277 Hong Kong residents are feared missing, mostly in the Thai resort town of Phuket, following Sunday&#39;s tsunami disaster.