India is, far and away, the country worst blighted by open defecation, made worse by the fact it has a large population crowded onto relatively little land.
— Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday that he was proposing to create seven new wild-horse preserves, including one in the East and one in the Midwest, to address the problem of a growing population crowding the Western range.
Trawling the ancient streets, he finds that in Athens life itself has become a competition, with almost half the national population crowded into the small capital, vying for "money, space, sex, even air".
The rapid rise in the prison population crowds out other public expenditures: America has the largest prison population in the world.
By 1743, some three thousand Jews (10 per cent of the population) crowded into a space originally intended for three hundred in conditions of squalor and congestion unknown elsewhere in the city" (p. 26).
Rising seas, a population crowded along the coast, porous bedrock, and the relatively common occurrence of tropical storms put more real estate and people at risk from storm surges aggravated by sea level rise in Florida, than any other state by far.
But over the six decades the lab has been on Long Island, a dense population has crowded around it.
More than two-thirds of the state's population is crowded into 2 percent of its area namely, into Sydney, Newcastle, and Wollongong, its three largest urban centres.
India's burgeoning population is crowding out forest, he suggests, arguing that "people of quality should come up, not just inferior grade".Mr Saran, the stone-breakers' advocate, tries to soften him up.
Citizens who had recovered from various degrees of radiation sickness were coming back by the thousand — by November 1st, the population, mostly crowded into the outskirts, was already 137,000, more than a third of the wartime peak — and the government set in motion all kinds of projects to put them to work rebuilding the city.
