Word: westernizing
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...could shrink the world's population [WORLD, Oct. 18] to a village of 100 people, maintaining all the existing ratios, the village would look like this: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the western hemisphere (North, Central and South America) and 8 Africans. Seventy of the 100 would be nonwhite. Seventy would be non-Christian. Six people would control 50% of the world's wealth, and all of them would be citizens of the U.S. Seventy people would be unable to read, more than half would suffer from malnutrition and 80 would live in substandard housing. Only...
...treated with antibiotics. In the past decade, at least 50 new viruses have appeared, including Ebola Ivory Coast, Andes virus, hepatitis G, Fakeeh, Pirital, Whitewater Arroyo, Hendra virus, Black Lagoon virus, Nipah and Oscar virus. This summer West Nile virus showed up for the first time in the western hemisphere, when it was discovered in New York City...
...been all gloom and doom. Less than two years after AIDS was recognized, the guilty agent--human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV--was identified. We now know more about HIV than about any other virus, and 14 AIDS drugs have been developed and licensed in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...cure for AIDS by the year 2025 is not inconceivable. But constrained by economic reality, these therapeutic advances will have only limited benefit outside the U.S. and Western Europe...
...North America 890 18.7% 2. Latin America 1,400 7.7% 3. Caribbean 330 22.2% 4. Sub-Saharan Africa 22,500 60.7% 5. North Africa and Middle East 210 5.0% 6. Western Europe 500 -2.0% 7. Eastern Europe and Central Asia 270 440.0% 8. South and Southeast Asia 6,700 28.8% 9. East Asia and Pacific 560 460.0% 10. Australia and New Zealand...