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By Michael Bowman Washington 07 March 2006 view Global Population report By 2050, world population is projected to reach nine billion people. That would constitute a 38 percent jump from today's popul

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 01 January 2008 India witnessed impressive economic growth for the fifth straight year in 2007. As Anjana Pasricha reports from VOA's New Delhi bureau, the surging South Asian economy is attracting the attention of forei

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By Ernest Leong Washington, D.C. 21 August 2006 watch Population report The Population Reference Bureau (P.R.B.) released its annual data sheet on global population growth. The report had some interesting findings. Experts in world population growth

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You'll Never Guess One of America's Boom States During a spring of extraordinary flooding in America's Northern Plains, the mostly flat, lightly populated state of North Dakota experienced 17 record river crests. This, after one blizzard after anothe

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