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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Debate grows with population

World | By Bruce Wallace | May 7, 2008
Ask Josephine Gonzalez how many children a family should have and the stick-figured 31-year-old mother answers without hesitation. Read more
 

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Questions raised over future of China’s one-child policy

World | March 4, 2008
First they said they might do it, then they said they wouldn’t. Read more
 

Friday, December 28, 2007

Employing birth control to tame urban wildlife

California | Local | By Francisco Vara-Orta | December 28, 2007
There were too many squirrels in Santa Monica and too many pigeons in Hollywood. Read more
 

Thursday, December 13, 2007

South Africa elephants get birth control

World | By Robyn Dixon | December 13, 2007
Samson, otherwise known as Elephant No. Read more
 

Sunday, November 4, 2007

NORTHEAST

National | November 4, 2007
Waning storm brushes area; damage slight The remnants of Hurricane Noel brushed parts of the Northeast with strong winds and heavy rain, causing some coastal flooding and knocking out power to tens of thousands of people, but sparing the New England region widespread damage. Read more
 

Nation in Brief | NEVADA - Officials ponder a black-bear season

National | November 4, 2007
Nevada wildlife officials, who have dealt with a record number of bear complaints, are considering holding the state’s first-ever black-bear hunting season. Read more
 

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Foes of Illegal Immigration See Support Growing

California | Local | By John L. Mitchell | May 16, 2006
Not everyone who is up in arms over illegal immigration has plans to patrol the border or participate in a face-off at a day labor site. Read more
 

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Measure on Strays Backed

California | Local | By Noam N. Levey | April 19, 2006
About 1 million residents of unincorporated communities in Los Angeles County soon will be required to spay or neuter their dogs, as supervisors Tuesday initially approved a sweeping ordinance designed to control strays. Read more
 

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

U.S. OKs killing of wolves in Gila forest

News | By Joe Robinson | May 17, 2005
A pack of endangered Mexican gray wolves in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest has developed a fatal appetite for livestock. Read more
 

Friday, May 2, 2003

Grass-Roots Donors Fund U.N. Agency

World | By Maggie Farley | May 2, 2003
When the U.S. government withheld $34 million in aid it had pledged to the U.N. Population Fund last July, Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham just got mad.” Read more
 

Friday, August 23, 2002

China Redefines Extra Offspring as Burden Rather Than Offense

World | By Ching-Ching Ni | August 23, 2002
China is revising its notorious one-child policy to remove the stigma it had attached to people who desire a larger family. Read more
 

Thursday, July 25, 2002

EU Will Boost U.N. Family Planning Funds

World | July 25, 2002
EUROPE * The European Union will boost family planning aid to poor nations to close a gap left when the U.S. withdrew $34 million for the U.N. Population Fund over concerns that the money might help China limit population through abortion and forced sterilization. Read more
 

Wednesday, February 14, 2001

In China, 7 Brides for 14 Brothers

News | By Henry Chu | February 14, 2001
Liu Haisheng went looking for a few good women last month. Read more
 

Saturday, November 6, 1999

Abuses Alleged in S. Korea’s Now-Banned Sterilization of Mentally Ill

News | By Sonni Efron | November 6, 1999
In 1982, when Yu suffered a depression so severe he refused to leave his house, was afraid to meet anyone, shouted at his family and sometimes threw things in rage, his parents called a local mental institution to come and take him away. Read more
 

Tuesday, October 12, 1999

Growth Slows as Population Hits 6 Billion

News | By Marla Cone | October 12, 1999
Despite common perceptions that the pace of the world’s population growth is spiraling out of control, women around the globe are having fewer children than their mothers and the birthrate is now declining in every nation on the planet. Read more
 

Sunday, September 5, 1999

Who Will Heed the Warnings on the Population Bomb?

Magazine | By Patt Morrison | September 5, 1999
Consider, if you can stand it, almost every public policy crisis that blips on the radar, and follow each back to its source. Read more
 

Saturday, July 3, 1999

U.N. Adopts Plan to Slow Population

News | July 3, 1999
The U.N. General Assembly adopted new proposals Friday to curb the world’s population growth, including calls for giving women greater access to abortions and giving adolescents greater access to sex education. Read more
 

Wednesday, March 31, 1999

City to Consider a Policy on Spaying, Neutering

California | Local | By Agnes Diggs | March 31, 1999
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to explore the feasibility of a mandatory policy of spaying and neutering dogs and cats to help alleviate the problem of animal overpopulation. Read more
 

Saturday, February 13, 1999

Managed Killing of Seals, Sea Lions That Imperil Other Species Urged

News | February 13, 1999
Officials should be allowed to kill federally protected sea lions and seals as a last resort when the animals prey on a declining fish population such as salmon, a federal report to Congress says. Read more
 

Friday, January 22, 1999

Catholic Mexico’s Surprising Birthrate

News | By James F. Smith | January 22, 1999
A bold declaration of Roman Catholic faith is etched in white stones on a hillside above this central Mexican town and visible for miles beyond: “Long Live Mary, Immaculate Queen!” Read more
 
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