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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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 Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:16 am Post subject: US population to hit 300 million |
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US population to hit 300 million
BBC News
The United States' population will hit 300 million on Tuesday morning, just 39 years after it reached 200 million, the US Census Bureau estimates.
A "population clock" will record the milestone at 0746 (1146 GMT) - a timing based on calculations that factor birth and death rates and migration.
The bureau's maths suggests that the US gains one person every 11 seconds.
But it is not possible to say if the 300-millionth American will be born, or cross one of the country's borders.
There is expected to be little of the hullabaloo that greeted the figure of 100 million in 1915, or the double century in 1967 when President Johnson gave a speech and newborn Robert Ken Woo Jr was hailed the 200-millionth American by Life magazine, correspondents say. |
Rest here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6057004.stm |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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Surely you could just send half of them to canada?
hold on, with all the wars in the offing, they'll be needed as troops. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| Go Catholicism! |
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