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	gender gap of 32 million

mona

4-13-2009 10:54 PM

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as result of China's one-child policy

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4-14-2009 8:32 AM

tabsey

If they hadn't taken the one-child policy on, they would have been unable to feed the people from their land. David Attenborough is not alone in regarding overpopulation as the greatest problem we are faced with.

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