• But he said the target of 10, 000 members was small compared with the population of 500, 000 the trust served.

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  • With the population of the water-stressed south-east of England projected to grow by almost a quarter by 2035, Lord Smith argued that the number of smaller reservoirs needed to be increased immediately and that new ways of transferring water from areas where it is plentiful to areas where it is scarce must be established.

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  • He became hugely popular with the Latino population of the city and even wore a mouth guard with the colours of the Mexican flag on it during a USC game, causing controversy with some fans.

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  • And with the growing population of aging baby boomers, the number of people with disabilities in the United States is expected to increase.

    FORBES: Good News For Travelers With Disabilities

  • Since the onset of the Great Recession, registered persons have been financially hit along with the rest of the population, and financial pressures have not discriminated among large or small firms.

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  • Since then, DeCode has been pinpointing disease-causing genes at a rapid clip by scanning the DNA of the Icelandic population, with the help of unusually detailed genealogy records that the country has kept.

    FORBES: DeCode Discovers Osteoporosis Gene

  • Tower Hamlets, the borough in which the East London Mosque is located, is the local authority with the highest population of Muslims, while neighbouring borough Newham has the second largest.

    BBC: East London Mosque opens doors to non-Muslims

  • Asghar said the subcontinent constituted a huge chunk of the world population with most of the cricket's revenue being generated in that part of the world.

    BBC: ICC stall on Mandela move

  • Meanwhile, new specialized master's programs appeal to students, particularly those from China, eager to delve deeper into a single subject and gain a credential to compete with the growing population of educated young adults, without taking much time out of the workforce.

    WSJ: Chinese Flock to the GMAT

  • Nevada was appointed to the task by the Democratic National Committee, which wanted a Western state to move up to the top of the calendar and also one of the states with a substantial Hispanic population - about a quarter of the Nevada population is Latino.

    NPR: Nevada Caucuses, S.C. Votes

  • With the smallest population of any canton (a touch over 15, 000), its people are outnumbered by cows.

    BBC: Swiss movement

  • "It is designed to cater to tourists - it won't engage with the rest of the population, " he added.

    BBC: How the euro crept into Britain

  • This combined with the lag in the population of the guide, makes it a bit of a drag to use.

    ENGADGET: App Review: TiVo Premiere for iPad

  • Facebook is under pressure to keep growing, but the company is rapidly approaching a saturation point with the adult population of Internet users in countries in many markets.

    FORBES: Hook 'Em While They're Young: Facebook May Target Kids

  • With the over population of Jr.

    FORBES: For-Profit Colleges Are Not The Problem, State Schools Are

  • Although Oakland is 43% black and only 28% white (with the rest of the population equal parts Latino and Asian), and although it has had a succession of black mayors in recent years, so many popular black candidates are running this time that they may split the vote and hand the election to the Moonbeam candidate.

    ECONOMIST: Oakland��s greenish glow

  • Benjamin Stora, perhaps France's leading historian of Algeria, refuses to jump to conclusions: modern Algeria, with 60% of the population under the age of 30 and with most people living in the cities, not the countryside, is a far cry from the Algeria which broke free from France two generations ago.

    ECONOMIST: Algeria then and now

  • Still, terrorism experts see agroterrorism, defined as the intentional contamination of the food supply with a goal of terrorizing the population and causing harm, as an increasing operational risk.

    FORBES: Agroterrorism: Managing Risk In The Food Supply Chain

  • Overall, 2012 was the year in which tablets really went mainstream in the UK. According to Ipsos Mori, the year started with 7% of the adult population owning an iPad, with another two percent owning another kind of tablet.

    BBC: Will Amazon's customers swallow a bigger tablet?

  • But in terms of the overall proportion of the population engaging with the social messaging service, it might be in a bit of a lull.

    CNN: Is Twitter slowing down?

  • It did not have the growth of the Shanghai region with its population of 100 million.

    FORBES: Why Hong Kong Is China's New Tech Hub

  • But its booming economy of recent years has increased the purchasing power of its population and moved an estimated 20 million out of poverty, with the majority of the population now in the middle class for the first time ever.

    FORBES: Lots Of Reasons To Love Brazil Again

  • He said that the wider impact of the bases on the population was significant, with the families of RAF personnel accounting for 1, 457 spouses and 1, 919 children up to 16 years of age, which was 7% of the total population of Moray.

    BBC: Moray's RAF Bases member's debate

  • Today, a herd of takins lives within a refuge at the edge of Thimpu, the sleepy capital of a country the size of Switzerland with a total population of just 700, 000.

    BBC: Bhutan, the kingdom of the clouds

  • By the dawn of the 21st century, with only a tiny population of birds left on the remote French Polynesian island of Rimatara, it was decided to reintroduce the endangered lorikeet on Atiu.

    BBC: A tale of the South Pacific

  • In the case of the 32 small states of the Commonwealth and 12 other states with a population of 1.5m or fewer (four other beneficiaries are slightly larger), such planning can now include insurance for all outstanding financial liabilities for three years after the event.

    ECONOMIST: Trial by jury

  • With the constantly swelling population of humans, now at around 7 billion the food will soon become a major commodity.

    FORBES: Connect

  • People with Type 2 diabetes also have twice the risk of stroke within the first five years of diagnosis compared with the general population.

    BBC: Diabetes cholesterol risk warning

  • With the young age of the population at that time (the US was still an emerging market, ) and additional culling of the population by World War II, not many people tapped into the social security system.

    FORBES: The Fallacy Of Saving For Traditional Retirement

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