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Earth Summit enthusiasts argue that efforts to raise incomes and educational levels for the poor will have the side effect of lowering population growth. In the fastest-growing countries, however, population increases prevent development by sopping up investment capital that might otherwise improve lives. If the summit is to be more than a bureaucratic sideshow unrelated to ( the forces threatening the globe, it will have to do more than offer camouflaged references to the population explosion...
...army of incarcerated souls, states have poured $30 billion into construction in the past 10 years. This year they will spend $7 billion more, while the Federal Government will plow $2 billion into a system that is demanding 1,100 new beds every week. After Medicare, corrections is the fastest-growing item in most state budgets, eating into scarce funds earmarked for health, education, transportation and social services...
STAID NEW ENGLAND IS NOT KNOWN as a hotbed of evangelism. Yet it has sprouted one of the world's fastest-growing and most innovative bands of Bible - thumpers. Launched in 1979 by a young evangelist named Kip McKean, the Boston Church of Christ has grown from a 30-member community into a global empire of 103 congregations from California to Cairo with total Sunday attendance...
...players, VCRS and electronic goods in use today are made in Asia. According to Sandhu, by the year 2000, Asia's gross national product is expected to match Europe's; this year Hong Kong's gnp per capita will pass New Zealand's. Nine out of the 10 fastest-growing economies last year, including South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand, were Asian. Taiwan now has foreign currency reserves equal to more than two-thirds of Australia's $145 billion foreign debt...
Average salaries for instructors at theUniversity grew fastest, according to the survey.These salaries increased from $32,800 to $46,600,a rise of 42 percent, much higher than thenational increase of 4 percent...