Word: censuses
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...ready to accept a compromise French proposal for two new resolutions, for inspections and military reprisals. And the U.S. was also likely to assure Russia, China and France that their oil interests in Iraq would be safe after any regime change. RUSSIA population implosion Russia's space agency added census forms to the package it sent two cosmonauts on an orbiting space station. The country's first post-Soviet census began in remote areas last week and will continue until Oct. 16. The results are expected to confirm Russian demographers' projections of a steady decline in the country's population...
...government-sanctioned school, at least not for a few centuries: Turkish Alevism. This mystic brand of Islam is practiced by 25% of the more than 2.5 million Turks in Germany and up to 30% of Turkey's 66 million people - though you won't find them in any census. That's because Turkey, mindful of its fractious past, forbids large minorities from formally identifying themselves as anything other than Turkish Muslim. "As a result," says Dertli, "most Europeans don't even know we exist." The building is Berlin's Anatolian Alevi Culture Center, one of nearly 300 such facilities scattered...
...report on the city of Sacramento [Sept. 2] incorrectly stated that the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University used raw U.S. Census data to determine that the city is the nation's most integrated. We should have said that Harvard used, in part, Census data analyzed by the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. For more information on the Center, visit www.albany.edu/mumford...
...Sure, all 435 seats are up for grabs Nov. 5, but fewer than a dozen races are likely to be close. When the parties drew up new districts this year, they largely obeyed a time-honored principle of mutually assured incumbency. But the latest Census resulted in Connecticut's losing a House district, so state lawmakers merged Maloney's and Johnson's. Their race and the few other toss-ups will decide whether Dick Gephardt will take over the Speaker's gavel. The most recent poll has Johnson leading 44% to 39% among likely voters. She has built that small...
...Australian prank-sters professed in a recent census to be practitioners of the "Jedi" faith, a pseudo religion inspired by the Star Wars movies...