Word: births
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coahoma, Miss. (pop. 351), which plans to replace the town's entire housing stock. There are 38 college chapters and 68 Habitat affiliates overseas. All told, 4,000 homes have been built since 1976. Boasts Fuller: "It's clear to me that we are seeing the birth of a movement...
...raising poultry and running grocery stores. About 123,000 women are currently enrolled in the cooperative. At weekly meetings, health-care and contraceptive information are distributed among members. An extraordinary 75% of the co-op members of childbearing age use contraceptives, while nationwide only 35% of married women practice birth control...
...profound change in the way Thais look at their families. The proof is in millions of people like Boonya Nuenmun, 36, a farmer in Korat province. Though his parents had nine children, Nuenmun says, "I've got two daughters, and that's enough already. I've been practicing birth control for years...
...Mechai, a former government economist, launched a private nonprofit organization, now known as the Population and Community Development Association (P.D.A.), to foster family planning and distribute birth-control devices. With growing encouragement and financial support from the government, the Bangkok-based P.D.A. has made population control a national mission. Today some 70% of Thailand's couples practice family planning. Mechai estimates that , without his program Thailand's population, currently 54 million, would have grown to 64 million...
While continuing to hand out condoms, Mechai has helped couples move on to more sophisticated forms of contraception. He put birth-control "supermarkets" in bus terminals, offering Pills, IUDs and spermicidal foam as well as condoms. Mechai also opened vasectomy clinics across the country, including one in Bangkok's massage-parlor district. Each year on the King's birthday, the P.D.A. offers free vasectomies (normal price...