| 1 | We already face a critical shortage of health-care personnel. | |
| 2 | However, on the whole, there is still a lack of creativity, the scarcity of first-hand data, simple replication at a low academic level and so on. | |
| 3 | Beyond the availability of dance partners for the winter formal, gender balance matters in ways both large and small on a residential college campus. | |
| 4 | In a society that is increasingly living life on the Internet, online services are poised to capitalize on the looming scarcity of love matches. | |
| 5 | The terrible dearth of information, the fictionalisation of our experience, there is hardly any gay autobiography, just novels, but why novelise it when the best of it is in our lives? |