The worst decision would be to do it slowly, with bad grace, allowing both sides to grow to hate each other all over again.

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"China and India will continue to grow and by the time this is all over, the global landscape will look quite different, " George Yeo told a group of visiting foreign journalists.

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America is already the third most populous country in the world and its population is projected to grow to over 400m by mid-century, virtually all the growth coming from immigration.

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And in the last couple of months, since the death of the young student, she has received calls and emails from people all over the world offering to help Sakha grow.

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"More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over 1 billion tons of food that nobody eats, " said Torgny Holmgren, director of the Stockholm International Water Institute.

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When you have a story as sprawling as Game of Thrones, with a cast that only continues to grow, and plot-lines sprouting up like magic beanstalks all over the place, the first episode of a season can feel a whole lot like tying up loose ends.

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Car manufacturers will sell their FFVs all over the world, enabling about 100 countries to grow the fuels they need to power them, ending their dependence on foreign oil and reducing dramatically the petro-wealth transfers being used by freedom's enemies to our collective detriment.

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It is expected to grow by around a third by 2050 to over 9 billion people, who will all need to be fed.

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