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There is a doomsday feel to such a figure, especially with the millennium approaching. Statisticians are already drooling over all those zeroes, and the frantic calculations that have ensued are a mathematician's dream. Bullet points on all the major news websites show the results of their labor: did you know that it took all of time for the world population to hit one billion in 1804, but only twelve years for it to jump from five billion to six billion? Did you know that one tenth of all the people who have ever lived are alive today...
...they fail to address what Y6B ultimately means for the future of the planet. Unfortunately, the answer to "what is the impact of a rapidly rising human population?" is not as easily obtained as the statistics, which can only make a feeble attempt to describe what should be a major global concern...
Between performances of two major American choral works, former Undergraduate Council presidential candidate T. Christopher King '01 read the morning's New Testament reading. The bulging crowd included former Illinois Governor James R. Edgar who sat next to Lowell House co-Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin...
...went on to boast of his country's status as the largest exporter of major league baseball players to the United States, pointing out that more than 70 or so professional baseball players from the Caribbean nation play in this country...
...cost of the shots. "Finances are not really an issue in the case of immunizations, although they certainly used to be," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "Today, there are so many free clinics available, virtually every person has access to basic care." The major reasons that some children are not getting the inoculations they need are twofold, says Dr. Smith: "First, in spite of all the public programs available today, some parents still lack basic awareness about the importance of immunization, and may not understand the scheduling that each shot requires." The second reason, says Dr. Smith...