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...cancer specialist who trained under Lynch. He said that Lynch is a visionary, both in his ability to develop young oncologists and in his research. “This was his chance to build a cancer center from his own vision and he will be extraordinary.” Engleman said. He said that Lynch, along with Cancer Center Director Daniel A. Haber, led what was probably the biggest discovery in lung cancer in the last 20 years. Lynch helped identify a new kind of mutation in the EGF receptor that has led to treatment for patients with this genetic...
...policy. Though simple arithmetic will tell you that the bigger the global population becomes, the harder it will be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you rarely see the population connection made explicit in major environmental reports. "Environmentalists came to realize how complicated and sensitive this issue was," says Robert Engleman, vice-president for programs at the Worldwatch Institute, and the author of the new book More: Population, Nature and What Women Want. "People didn't want to tell their neighbors and friends how to have kids...
...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...
...question remains though: what can we do about population? State-mandated birth control is essentially unfair - and a policy no American government would ever support. But in his new book, Engleman makes the argument that the government doesn't need to get involved. The key to limiting population growth, he says, is to give control over procreation to women. In society after society, even in countries where large families have always been the norm, when women take control over family size, birth rates shrink. "They don't have to be coerced," says Engleman. "This will happen as long as women...
...world. For the U.S., the best option is vigorous foreign aid that helps make contraception safe, reliable and accessible in every country - too often women in the developing world who want to use contraception, can't get it. "The funding for contraception aid has been stagnant for decades," says Engleman. "Americans need to influence their government to get behind this." If we don't, we may find out very soon just what the limits of the Earth are. It's not just feminism to support population control - it's environmentalism...