On current trends, these will amount to some 240% of GDP by 2040, up from a just-about-manageable 65% today.David Walker, who until recently ran the Government Accountability Office, has made it his mission to get the nation to acknowledge and treat this "fiscal cancer".
This is up from a probability, just a decade ago, that such events would occur only once every 52 years, a 10-fold increase.
Getting picked up from a sleepover just before bedtime.
Venter hopes to have 500 researchers working on drug discovery by year-end, up from just a handful a few months ago.
Half of all Americans now see racism as a big problem -- up from just a quarter in 2009 -- and the number of those who say more equality is needed jumped from 46percentto59percentcent in just over a year.
There are about half a dozen such camps, up from just a couple that languished for years before the recent spike in interest.
That's up from just a few dozen five years ago, a spike that blog watchers say owes much to the events of Sept. 11, which spawned a whole new subgenre: the war blog.
Sumitomo decided to send 30 managers annually to overseas executive programs in 2010, up from just a few each year, and has custom-designed a training program with IMD, a business school based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Wake me up from a nightmare; we just want our painting back," she blurted out when approached by a reporter.
It was almost as if she woke up from a dream and just wrote it down.
This is up from just a quarter of the total population in 1990.
