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...population growth has slowed drastically in many countries in Western Europe and in Japan, where women are having fewer and fewer babies, it's still rising in much of the developed world - and for that matter, in the United States. "You really can't talk about the supply and demand imbalance that is sending energy and food prices up without acknowledging that we are adding 78 million people each year, the equivalent of a new Idaho every week," says Engleman...
...regular shuttle schedule that takes students directly from the library to residential areas at late hours of the night. In an atmosphere fraught with stress, students who wish to study should always be able to do so. The provision of a quiet and easily accessible study space is a demand that any college should be happy to accommodate...
...fact that a leading figure in al-Sadr's ranks announced the deal and pointedly rejected the Iraqi government's key demand to disarm suggests that the cleric is still controlling the agenda tactically and politically despite the most serious challenge his power the Iraqi government could muster. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki set out to break the back of the Mahdi Army in March, when he launched an offensive against areas the militia controls in the southern city of Basra. The Mahdi Army fought Iraqi forces to a standstill there while unleashing a daily hail of rockets...
...place, Hizballah wants a so-called national unity government with a large enough Hizballah contingent to give them veto power over all decisions. This was the group's original demand when, after the 2006 war with Israel, it launched a street campaign to topple the government, which Hizballah accused of carrying out an American plan to disarm the militia. With a new national unity government in place, Hizballah will have secured its existence as an armed state-within-the-state...
...smashing taboos as quickly as they could find the staff: Women read the news, male and female DJs joked together on the radio, and would-be rock stars vied for attention in a nation that once banned music. Social conservatives grumbled, but appeared powerless in the face of insatiable demand that saw Tulsi garner an estimated viewership of some 10 million - one third of the population - according to broadcaster Tolo...