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  1. Health & Medicine

    Improving the View: Treatment reverses macular degeneration

    People with the eye disease known as macular degeneration now have a better-than-average prospect of recovering some vision, thanks to a new drug that takes a lesson from an anticancer strategy.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    U.S. population to surpass 300 million

    At approximately the middle of October, the population of the United States will hit and then quickly eclipse 300 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

    By Ben Harder

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    This article concludes with the interesting fact that the only annual drop in U.S. population during the past century “occurred between July 1917 and July 1918, when the country was at war,” implying a military cause for the decline.