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Presents the first in a series of articles focusing the presence of Islam in Europe. Description of a scene inside a mosque in Torcy, France, and comments from a speaker, who is suggesting that Muslims should center their social activities around mosques; Author's view that the message being sent from the mosques is that people who are different are held in contempt; Percentage of France's population made up by Muslims, indicating the shifting population trends across all of Europe; Social conditions in some European cities that are driving Muslims back into their communities and away from integration.

A new report forecasts that the number of Muslims around the world will grow over the next 20 years at twice the rate of non-Muslims, but that the rapid growth will level off. With more Muslim women getting educations and jobs, people migrating to cities, and living standards improving, the report says, the birthrate in majority-Muslim countries will come to more closely resemble the pattern in other nations. Predictions that Europe will become a majority-Muslim ''Eurabia'' are unfounded, according to the report by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, a nonpartisan research group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two years ago, Europe was growing more rapidly than the United States, and the Old Continent finally seemed prepared to tackle longstanding economic challenges like rigid labor markets, runaway government spending and a rapidly aging population. But as Asia and the United States emerge from the global economic crisis, Europe appears likely to be the world's laggard, threatening a return to the dark days of ''Eurosclerosis.'' Leaders who once spoke optimistically of fundamental changes aimed at enhancing productivity have turned to the more prosaic tasks of protecting jobs and avoiding painful political choices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents updates on politics and economics of the U.S. and Europe in 2004. Media descriptions of late New York Representative Shirley Chrisholm and authoress Susan Sontag; Tax cuts in Europe from 2000 to 2004; Increase in the population of the U.S. from July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2004.

This article presents information related to world population. It is not an accident that Europe was in turmoil for so many years. Whites were exploiting whites, killing whites, and diminishing the supply of whites in the world. Then there came a revelation, a question: why in the hell are whites killing each other off, looking at the number of whites killed in all the wars that have approached being global in nature? Most of those killed or savaged have been white, thus reducing the white global share of the world's population.

Reports on the population in Europe where both living longer and producing fewer children is beginning to change some of the fundamentals of both social and political life.

Reports on the declining native-born populations in European countries as birth rates fall below replacement rates. Number of immigrants needed by Italy each year to generate tax base necessary to support its social welfare entitlements; Reasons for the declining fertility rate; Options facing Europeans.

Discusses changes in European fertility rates between 1975 and 1995. Sustained decline in birth rates; Concern that there are not enough young people working to support the increasing number of elderly; Comments from Jean-Claude Chesnais of France's National Institute for the Study of Demography; Reasons for the trend; Statistics.