Since Brazil relaxed price and production controls on sugar cane two decades ago, its crop has increased by two and a half times.

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The CPSC estimates that exposure to children from furniture increased cancer risk by 20 additional cancers per million (two times the California safety standard of 10 cases per million).

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In the past, says Drewry Shipping Consultants, the container trade has increased by between two-and-a-half and three times the rate of GDP growth.

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