For the past century, the United States has been adding one new inhabitant every 10 seconds, said Doug Smith in the Los Angeles Times. The population hit 100 million in 1915, and 200 million in 1967. Sometime this month, the Census Bureau says, the U.S. will hit 300 million. But don
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