1.   Although snail numbers have stabilized as springflow rates have rebounded over the last three years, some biologists fear that their population could explode again if springflows drop sharply.

2.   As seal populations explode, people are going to be seeing a lot more of them this summer.

3.   A knee-jerk aversion to killing animals not only divides allies, they say, but it may result in more animal suffering and ecological damage if animal populations explode.

4.   But things came to a head recently when the summer flea population exploded on our dog -- and in our house.

5.   By the time Shepard arrived in Los Angeles, the black population was exploding.

6.   Chaos, Kaplan argues, will sweep the continent as populations explode and poorly managed societies fall apart in a cascade of dominoes.

7.   Population is exploding on both sides of the border as new industries have been established in the past decade.

8.   Similarly, even as the Latino population exploded, Spanish-language movie theaters in Southern California were closing.

9.   Something that haunts the Chinese leadership is that this population might explode in some kind of massive social protest.

10.   Teaching and support staffs are being seriously depleted just as the school population is exploding.