The recession has hit especially hard in California, home of the world's eighth largest economy and one out of eight Americans.

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The United Nations estimates that females age ten to twenty-four are one-eighth of the world's population.

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The team is ranked eighth in the world.

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If found, "it will be the world's eighth wonder, the world's largest statue, " he told BBC News Online.

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All this has increased speculation about whether the world's eighth-biggest economy is already in recession.

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The company already ranks as the world's eighth-largest producer (in terms of installed capacity) of wind turbine generators.

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