The new report is an indication of how things have changed on the population question.

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The question arises: what population level can the United States sustain?

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Senator Routier said a population cap was not out of the question.

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The UK's National Health Service (NHS), which is hoping to slash the cost of caring for an ageing population, has tried to settle the question by backing the world's largest trial of telecare.

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In their Pediatrics paper, MacMillan and co-authors say that 8% to 9% of women and 4% of men reported severe psychological abuse in childhood when the question was posed in general-population surveys of the U.S. and Britain.

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While Nevada is on the fast track to allowing Internet poker within its borders, some industry players question whether the state's population of about 2.6 million is big enough to support a thriving online-poker sector, even if the state moves ahead with its plan.

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Currently the area is sparsely populated and Georgia has a population of around 4.5 million, begging the question 'Where will the 500, 000 future Lazika residents come from?

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The question therefore arises whether windows are causing the bird population to decline.

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To demonstrate how it could be a broad-based solution, I put the question of why not use DPC for the Medicaid population to DPC practitioners.

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But who will provide adequate long-term care to this population as it grows older, frailer and more dependent remains an open question.

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But this raises the question of how big of a problem is this ratio and our aging population in general.

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But others question why crime has continued to fall recently when budget constraints have kept the prison population relatively flat.

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In Texas, another major concern is how overhauling health care will deal with the question of providing treatment to illegal immigrants --- a significant slice of the patient population at JPS and other public hospitals.

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