As the poor in Africa and Asia move to cities, the population of urban slums through out the world has grown to 1 billion. Of the children born in 2008, one in three will be born in a slum.
The Atlantic Monthly
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The U.S. population rose to 303 million last year, but not every part of the country is growing. Almost a third of U.S. counties are experiencing more deaths than births. Nearly all the shrinking counties are in rural areas, mostly in the Great Plains and Texas.
USA Today
USA Today
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The FBI is spending $1 billion to create a computer database of faces,iris patterns, and other biometic data. When completed, the "Next Generation Identification" system could allow law enforcement officials to instantly check a list of millions of felons, fugitives, and suspected terrorists.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
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Airport security screeners seize about 1,000 hidden guns and about 1 million knives a year from passengers who either forget they're carrying them or try to smuggle them to another location. Screeners have also found a baby alligator hidden in a traveler's pants, a boa constrictor in a shoe, and numerous tarantulas.
USA Today
USA Today
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Bucking the trend in many other industrialized nations, the U.S. is experiencing a baby boomlet, the Centers for Disease Control and prevention reported. The nearly 4.3 million births in 2006 constituted the largest number of children born in the U.S. in 45 years--mostly due to a large adult population,especially a growing number of Hispanics.
Associated Press
Associated Press
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More Americans now die from misuse of prescription drugs-- including antidepressants, painkillers, and sleeping pills--than from herion and cocaine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported, Fatalities due to drug overdoes have been rising dramatically in the U.S. since 1999, largely because of the abuse of prescription drugs.
Los Angelrs Times
Los Angelrs Times
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China is now the world's fastest-growing producer of kosher-certified foods. Under periodic rabbinical supervision, more than 500 Chinese factories produce kosher products for Jews in the U.S., Israel, and Europe.
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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To deal with the boarded-up windows and unraked lawns that characterize foreclosed properties, Minneapolis officials are urging neighborhood associations to "adopt" foreclosed homes. Ongoing maintenance of abandoned properties can help prop up sagging market values.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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There are some 10 million visually impaired people in the U.S., including about 1.3 million who, like David Paterson, the new governor of New York, are legally blind. Despite laws making it illegal to discriminate against the blind. only about 30 percent of working-age blind people have jobs.
Associated Press
Associated Press
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New York State lottery officials last week closed down betting on the number 871--the room in Washington, D.C.'s Mayflower Hotel wherein former Gov. Eliot Spitzer met with the prostitude named Kristen--because too many people were playing it.
New York Daily News
New York Daily News