(2008) On Dec. 10, Barry M. Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the UNC-CH's Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, visited PRB to discuss rising obesity worldwide and his new book, The World is Fat, published by Avery in December 2008.
(2009) The ACS data are tabulated for a variety of different geographic areas ranging in size from broad geographic regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) to neighborhoods and clusters of city blocks.
(2013) UNAIDS has estimated that around 270,000 people are living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, an overall HIV prevalence of 0.1 percent among adults ages 15 to 49, and one of the lowest rates among world regions.
(2006) Adolescent U.S. girls are being arrested in record numbers. And every year brings new media attention to mean or aggressive girls' behavior—with sensational newspaper headlines and book titles such as See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It and Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.1 Could there be an epidemic of violence in the United States among girls—who have traditionally been considered more mature and less trouble to raise than boys?
Project: KIDS COUNT
(2002) The data in this data sheet dramatize the yawning gaps in well-being between children of rich and poor nations.
(2009) Unique events, political climates, and social and economic conditions shape each new generation in every society.
(2001) It is now clear that the 21st century will feature a major transformation in world population.