Population goals in doubt
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world population growth and ensure women&#39;s rights could be missed without greater resources and political will, a UN report says.
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The complexity of life took    billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that    is Earth. It would seem prudent Â if one had the means Â to save some portion    of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start    over from scratch in the event of a global cataclysm.
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The gross domestic product is up, but jobs are down. Economists say yes, that is possible. MIAMI - It seems, at first blush, to be a baffling contradiction.
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Remember the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world&#39;s food and suck up or pollute all its air and water?
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More than 12 million families last year, about the same as in 2002, either didn't have enough food or worried about being able to feed everyone, the government reported Friday.
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A small Cheshire village last year set itself the aim of becoming the country's first carbon neutral community -- only to be swamped with requests for advice from around the world.
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What you're counting on might not be enough.
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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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England's strategy to reduce teenage  pregnancies is working but the pace of decline is not enough to  meet its target of halving the rate of conceptions by the end  of the decade, scientists said on Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 11 (IPS) - Many developing countries are failing to decrease  the number of deaths in line with the Millennium Development  Goals, says a new World Bank report.
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Schools aren't sure why enrollment is down. Some experts cite rising fears among illegal immigrants.
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A UK parliamentary group concludes population growth threatens the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells for inmates.
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With all the hand-wringing about the economic perils of falling populations, there could be one beneficiary: the environment.
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The study raises questions of whether environmental standards are strict enough.
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15 September 2004 - The world has made genuine progress towards achieving the ambitious programme outlined at the 1994 Cairo population conference, a United Nations review released today finds, but a serious funding shortfall is obstructing efforts to