After President Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address in January 1994, the media were boundless in their reporting of the president’s freshened support among the American electorate. The clue to the country’s enthusiastic response was the president’s apparent support of “family values.” In the
Representatives of various national academies of sciences held a “Science Summit” in New Delhi, India, from 24-27 October, 1993. The meeting was held with the intent of providing a ‘scientific’ foundation for the resolutions of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
Sheldon Richman is a senior editor with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. In his best-selling book, Earth in the Balance, U.S. Vice President Al Gore wrote, “No goal is more crucial to healing the global environment than stabilizing human population” During the U.S. presidential
Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics The Setting Sun? According to official 1992 population projections by the Japanese government,1 the population of Japan, which is growing at an extremely slow rate of just one-third of one percent annually, will begin to decline in less than 20
Meet Fred Sai et al. Veteran Ghanaian researcher and family planning advocate Fred Sai and the Mainichi Shimbun Population Problems Research Council of Japan shared this year’s United Nations Population Award at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York last month. They were chosen
European regional conference on population and development: European and American governments meeting at the European population and development conference in Geneva balked at committing themselves to a target for funding birth control programs in developing countries. They did agree, however, to increase spending for population
Chill winds of fear sweep the Netherlands as euthanasia unveils itself like a thief in the night. The debate on the issue of euthanasia is now going on in many countries including the United States, but only in Holland is active euthanasia, injecting sick people
In each of the past two years the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute has issued new publications titled Viral Signs, books that purport to document “the trends that are shaping our future.”1 Following in the footsteps of the famous Worldwatch State of the World series,2 now in
Dr. Seamus Grimes is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Galway, Ireland. Introduction Although there is widespread concern throughout Europe during the current period of economic recession, with high levels of unemployment and the recent upsurge in refugee movements associated
To be or not to be — Taiwan government will decide the question Because of Taiwan’s falling birthrate the Department of Health (DOH), Republic of China (ROC), has decided “to abolish subsidies for contraceptives provided to married couples. The Free China Journal reports that, “In
After President Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address in January 1994, the media were boundless in their reporting of the president’s freshened support among
Representatives of various national academies of sciences held a “Science Summit” in New Delhi, India, from 24-27 October, 1993. The meeting was held with the
Sheldon Richman is a senior editor with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. In his best-selling book, Earth in the Balance, U.S. Vice President Al
Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics The Setting Sun? According to official 1992 population projections by the Japanese government,1 the population of Japan, which is growing
Meet Fred Sai et al. Veteran Ghanaian researcher and family planning advocate Fred Sai and the Mainichi Shimbun Population Problems Research Council of Japan shared
European regional conference on population and development: European and American governments meeting at the European population and development conference in Geneva balked at committing themselves
Chill winds of fear sweep the Netherlands as euthanasia unveils itself like a thief in the night. The debate on the issue of euthanasia is
In each of the past two years the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute has issued new publications titled Viral Signs, books that purport to document “the trends
Dr. Seamus Grimes is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Galway, Ireland. Introduction Although there is widespread concern throughout Europe
To be or not to be — Taiwan government will decide the question Because of Taiwan’s falling birthrate the Department of Health (DOH), Republic of