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• Gentrification in Buffalo

  
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  Latest post up at Pacific Standard magazine . Theme: Urban geography of the Talent Economy. Subject Article: "Is Progress Pushing People Out in Buffalo?" Other Links: 1. "Portland Is Dying." 2. "Sunburn Belt: Legacy Costs Of Sprawl." 3. "Urban Decline in Rust-Belt Cities." Postscript: The Cleveland Fed ...
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• Shock as 84 schools have NO white British pupils at all… double the number of five years ago

  
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  Daily Mail: Number of such schools has more than doubled from 31 in 2008 Highest concentration of schools is Birmingham with 22 Primary schools make up 67 of the total number Critics say Labour’s ‘open-door’ policy created integration problems By Jonathan Petre PUBLISHED: 23:08 GMT, 11 May 2013 | ...
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• Town of Hempstead: The Changing Demographics

  
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  "In many parts of Hempstead, more than a third of residents are foreign-born, coming primarily from Central and South America, according to the coalition. Those statistics should be no surprise. From 2000 to 2010, the Hispanic voting-age population grew across the county by more than 45,000, or 48 percent, to nearly ...
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• The Triumph of Suburbia

  
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  New Geography : The Triumph of Suburbia A lengthy piece. This analysis was particularly interesting: ... Ultimately the question of growth revolves around the preferences of consumers. Despite predictions that the rise of singles, an aging population and the changing preferences of millennials will create a ...
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• Putting Mali Back Together Again: An Age-Structural Perspective

  
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  Once considered a model for Sahelian democracy, Mali’s liberal regime (assessed as “free” in Freedom House’s annual survey of democratic governance continuously from 2000 to 2011) virtually disintegrated in March 2012 when a group of junior army officers, frustrated by the central government’s half-hearted ...
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• Child mortality declines in Asia — just not quickly enough

  
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  Author: Vinh Duc Nguyen, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences The infant and child mortality rate has declined remarkably in most countries since 1950. But despite worldwide efforts, the target laid down in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) — to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between ...
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• What Rights? ‘New York Times’ Discussion of Egypt’s Population Policy Incomplete

  
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  The New York Times had a front-page story on Egypt’s population policy last week; unfortunately it wasn’t a sterling example of how to report on this tricky issue and left out a key part of the story – the important role of family planning in ensuring human rights, especially for women. “ Egypt’s ...
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• Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S.

  
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  New York Times : Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S. Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry and easy access to prescription painkillers may be particularly vulnerable to self-inflicted ...
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• Chinas Imperial New Consumers

  
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  The world’s most populous nation has 1.3 billion consumers and plenty of purchasing power – enough to buy one seventh of the world’s total products by 2015, reports the Asia Sentinel. Foreign investors should be aware of trends in the Chinese market, as identified by a study from the Samsung Economic Research ...
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• Lessons from the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List

  
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  by Daniel Pipes* The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s list of “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives dates back to 1950 but the list of “Most Wanted Terrorists” dates back to just after 9/11 and a sense that terrorism had become a strategic threat. Today, the list includes 31 individuals, all of them male and with a ...
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• A Tale of Four Pyramids

  
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  The original version of this article, by Carl Haub, appeared on Demographics Revealed . There has been quite a bit made in the media and in blogs about low birth rates in industrialized countries. Quite correctly, many people (and countries!) are concerned that unprecedented aging and a dearth of younger ...
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• London Police “Institutionally Racist”

  
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  By  Venutios Brigantes In one of the more outrageous recent cases of the  “pot calling the kettle black” , the blacks-only   Metropolitan Black Police Association  (BPA) has again … accused the Metropolitan Police of London, England, of being “ institutionally racist .” Metropolitan Police ...
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• Band of Conflict: What Role Do Demographics, Climate Change, and Natural Resources Play in the Sahel?

  
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  Stretching across northern Africa, the Sahel is a semi-arid region of more than a million square miles covering parts of nine countries. This band of territory is home to one of the world’s most punishing climates; vast expanses of uncharted and unmonitored desert; busy migration corridors that host human, drug, ...
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• Steyn: The Collapsing of the American Skull

  
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  Its Saturday and that means another vitally important column from Mark Steyn. The Collapsing of the American Skull rates up there among his best. Ill refrain from ruining it for you with a bunch of excerpts. But Id like to thank Mark for including a couple of my comments on Kermit Gosnell in his syndicated column. ...
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