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  • China's third race is to become environmentally sustainable before water, air and land resources -- and its population's health -- are permanently impaired.

    The Five Races That Lie Ahead For China Donald P. Kanak 2010

  • Though I strongly believe that addressing cholera is the right and human thing to do, I am hoping that we can start looking beyond mere containment towards establishing the necessary foundation that will prevent future outbreaks and reduce the Haitian population's vulnerability to any such illnesses.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Are Haiti's Cholera Victims Warren Buffett's "Girls in the Convertible?" Georgianne Nienaber 2011

  • My point is that D.F. can go about passing all the laws it wants, it wont change the general population's attitudes towards gays which, although laissez faire, are not positive.

    Gay marriage in M�xico City 2010

  • Summary: After acquiring an accidental passenger while escaping from an alien attack, the Doctor, Rose and Jack find themselves on the planet Tir in the middle of its population's uplifting to full sentience as they come fully into their pyschic gifts.

    Just Another Shop Girl (9/18) amberfocus 2009

  • My point is that D.F. can go about passing all the laws it wants, it wont change the general population's attitudes towards gays which, although laissez faire, are not positive.

    Gay marriage in M�xico City 2010

  • And one of the most heartening phenomena I've observed in the population's relationship to art has been its ability to do just that.

    We can rock forever 2009

  • Now Cameron's government is locked in last-minute talks with BBC executives about a proposal that could force the corporation to pay for free TV licences for the over-75s, currently £556m annually, but set to rise as the UK population's age profile gets older.

    BBC funding cannot escape George Osborne's cuts James Robinson 2010

  • My point is that D.F. can go about passing all the laws it wants, it wont change the general population's attitudes towards gays which, although laissez faire, are not positive.

    Gay marriage in M�xico City 2010

  • Didn't the Romans build (invent?) arenas to focus the population's attention on something other than the state, and hence keep the populous 'in line,' in a way?

    gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • When I became a reporter, I wanted to learn how they had kept that grip on the population's psyche and used it to dominate political life, decide who would live and die, and prompt hundreds of thousands of people to leave Haiti.

    'Baby Doc' returned - like he told me he would Marjorie Valbrun 2011

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