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15 global challenges that cannot be addressed by any government acting alone

  The 15 Global Challenges  from t he Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank. 1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change? 2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? 3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? 4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? 5. How can decisionmaking be enhanced by integrating improved global foresight during unprecedented accelerating change? 6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? 7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? 8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced? 9. How can education make humanity more intelligent, knowledgeable, and wise enough to address its global challenges? 10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terroris

Driving Lessons and flower pot for "Busy-lizzy"

Honey, I feel quite depressed for wasting so much money on driving lessons. Rang the second instructor this afternoon, he said the price of lessons is £16/lesson now, those £60 for 5 lessons is only an offer for the first time people attends the lesson, and he can offer me £15/lesson if I pay in advance for 5 lessons, i.e. £75 for five lessons, not much cheaper than the 1st instructor's (£17 /lesson). I have already had 31 lessons since I started learning driving. I told it to Tony, the Irish boy in my office. He looks surprised for my dumbness, I think, just not speaking for politeness, and I also asked Tammy, the girl shares the house with her boyfriend and me, she told me she didn't take any lessons from professional instructors, just learnt from her daddy and passed the test at the first time, sounds an easy tiny case for her. Tammy gave me a bigger pot to replant my 'busylizzy'. Remember that flower? When she removed it from its original pot, we found the roots stu