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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

Fwd: Warrior Cats Review

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Xiao Qiang" < brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com > Date: Apr 27, 2014 10:56 AM Subject: Warrior Cats To: "Jim Sheng" < jim.sheng@gmail.com > Cc: I like the book a lot. The book is sad and also funny but exciting and adventurous at the same time. A lot of battle mode and survival stuff and it is really a good book. But... i would appreciate it if they talked more about the other clans. Because in this book they only talk about Thunderclan. If they talked more about where Windclan was and how they survive or if they survive. Also Riverclan isn't mentioned much apart from the beginning and the gathering each moon. I liked the great description of each scene for example, Erin hunter talks about the scene in the forest a lot. And i like how Firepaw (Fireheart, Rusty) meets Smudge again and Smudge looks different than before. I was confused at the beginning what the word cutter was so I looked farther int