Issues in the ethics and practice of demography and bioengineering - population control, the right to life, cloning, and abortion.

...The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquai...

In a future where population control laws have made it difficult for men to find a date, a civil servant struggles to woo the woman he adores.

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...r 14 A brief page on Kerala Chapter 15 The miscellaneous affects Techniques of leadership Towns and Cities of India The incessant movement of population from villages to towns in India Non-Sharing of knowledge The thousand Mutinies Illustrations A humorous story Oriental dynamism The weakening of a people Chapter 16 Dignity of labour To put it briefly T...

... that Neanderthal DNA is found in the human genome with findings from studies of the central nervous system. Approximately one to five percent of the population is born with brain anomalies correlated with psychopathy, a personality disorder marked by lack of compassion, conscience and remorse. Some researchers have concluded that psychopaths are a subspecies. Psychopaths’...

...aybe both! Deserts, mountains, tropical rainforests, a few fertile plains: undoubtedly there are a lot of contrasts in this country, whose cities and population are concentrated along eastern and south-eastern coasts. Nonetheless its heart is what fascinates the most: red mountains and red sand are what the world knows better of Australia...

...menian community was arrested and executed. Between May and June 1915 the Armenian population was deported to Mesopotamia. The deportation followed... ...well as setbacks in the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are... ...t the University of Illinois, noticed in the early 1960s that though the bacterial population doubles every 20 minutes - the quantity of luciferase... ...h Europe and the Mediterranean in 1347- 1351- killed one quarter to one third of the population - c. 25 million people. This is the equivalent of 250... ...lion people. This is the equivalent of 250 million today. It took 150 years for the population to recover its pre-epidemic levels. Scholars beli... ...nd died earlier - on average at age 35 - as the centuries passed. "Pre-Columbian populations were among the healthiest and the least healthy in o... ..., or professional predilection to NPD. It is estimated that 0.7-1% of the general population suffer from NPD. Pathological narcissism was first ... ...920 prohibition was already in effect in 33 states covering 63 percent of the total population. In 1917 the resolution for submission of the Prohibi... ...es) – the size of the USA. Only 2.5- 3 million people live in it – one hundredth the population of the United States. Contrary to its popular image, ...

...ng drugs at least once during their lives is approximately 42% of the overall population. 4 In Europe, consumption of cocaine has reached an unsett... ...be nuclear wars that would result in the obliteration of most of the world’s population. Albert Einstein expressed a similar fear in a 24 May, 1946... ...treating wolves as ruthless and dangerous ani- mals. However, when the wolves’ population diminished, their contribution to balancing the deer, wild ... ... diminished, their contribution to balancing the deer, wild boar, and rodent populations became evident. As it turned out, unlike people, who prefe... ...ieved. 16 In such a society, animals maintain a balanced existence, and the population density is always adapted to current living conditions. The... ...ng conditions. There is never any shortage or deprivation in any part of the population unless there is an “accident,” which the animal society cor... ... brain and prompting a pleas- ant feeling. 18 Approximately 10% of the world’s population are this kind of “egoistic altruists.” This is what Baal Ha... ...ur egos by ourselves, we will suffer tremendous- ly, the majority of the world population will be extinct through horrendous wars, and the few surviv... ...d for the worse. Surveys held in the European Union indicate that 60% of the population in the European Union believe Israel is the country that po...

...oo. Goebbels warned Hitler that his newfound moderation won’t go down well with the population. Still, Hitler declined all invitations to the openin... ...could lead to a pogrom not only against the Frankenbergs but against all the Jewish population in Styria.” Himmler consents gravely. “We kept a... ...was twiddling his thumbs again which brought back bittersweet memories – “The local populations were supportive. The Germans were mere bystanders in...

...is relatives. As in the case of southern Africa, in India also, the high-risk population included long distance truck-drivers, migrant workers, thei... ...eir tradition. The Gill hamlet in the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border has a population of 700 plus most of them belonging to the Valmeeki Nadu com... ... economically very well off women who just form some less than 5% of India's population. That is why when we wanted to study HIV/AIDS in relation... ...gram must be given specially to villagers for in certain villages over 50% of population would have not even entered school premises. Thus she feel... ... the grass-roots level. As a group of 10-20 students depending on the village population should camp in the villages for at least 30 days and mingle... ... medical care only for acute illness. Thus it is among the impoverished rural population that the highest levels of HIV risk behaviour occur. In ru... .... 24. Chin J. (1995) Scenarios for the AIDS Epidemic in Asia. Asia-Pacific Population Research Reports, East-West Center Program on Populations ... ...al, Psychological, and Physical Problems in Men and Women: A Cross Sectional Population Survey. Journal of Epidemiology, Community and Health, Vol.... ... Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi. 94. Quinn, T.C. (1994) The Movement of Populations and the Spread of HIV-1 and HIV- 2 Infections. Proc. of the...

...ildcats and wolves. There were some other tribes that rounded out the Were population. Of course, one could not forget the human populace. Not that t... ...cease-fire. A cure was found and dispensed to all those infected. The two populations had lost many to the disease. A peaceful accord was reached an...

... 51 13. Gurpurbs and Guru Khalsa Panth 52 14. Sikh Population 54 15. Main F... ...does not owe allegiance to any other religion, is a “SIKH”. 54 WORLD POPULATION OF SIKHS According to the “2003 Encyclopaedia Britannica Boo... ...cording to the “2003 Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year”, the world population of “Sikhs” is “23.821” millions (Mid-2002). The majority of Si...

...he United States and Vietnam. That’s approximately 40 percent of the world’s population, 54 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and 44 perce...

...an has ever done. Still, the "Law of the Minimum" - that there is a limit to human population growth and that this barrier is related to the biotic... ...o escaping the fact that the main drivers of global warming and climate change are population growth and the emergence of an energy- guzzling middle... ...ther studied in conjunction with global dimming and ozone depletion); measures for population control and family planning enhanced; alternative and...

...I have accumulated enough lemons to make lemonade for the entire southern population in the United States, who seem to have a greater appreciation f... ...ip cookies. One hundred and fifty million Ameri­ cans-sixty percent of the population-still know me as liThe Cookie Man." They say, with apologies to... ...e worked in Los Angeles, I was amazed to see the creation of a na­ tional population of Wally Amos cookie junkies! 5 .f You Keep on 'hinking What ...

... French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Britain, govern nearly one fifth of the world’s population? Could they foresee that that same Comp... ...ns, whose wives had not joined them in India, still took willing mistresses from among the native population. She could even see the attraction of t... ...te their happiness, Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light, was being observed by the minority Hindu population of the State of Kashmir, when they arri...

...e dark, their very presence striking uncontrollable fear in the remaining population. Their menacing lights were all that could be seen. They did n... ...e we headed?” “New York. I fgure we cross over and head upstate where the population is minimal and the Seekers are less likely to fnd an interest i... ...o loot. We should try and head into the areas that used to have a heavier population.” Talbot shook his head. “I don’t want to get spoted on satel- l... ...re was much commotion in the bunker at that mo- ment. The entire surviving population of Plainville was holed up in this decommissioned military comp...