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*Increasing at a rate of 2% a year, population doubles in 35 years. At 3%, it doubles in 23 years; at 4%, in 18 years. From the time of Christ until the Mayflower colonization, the increase was glacially slow—the world's population took 1,600 years to double itself.

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ROLF-DIETER HEUER, CERN's director general, on the Large Hadron Collider smashing proton beams together for the first time
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