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

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  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,...
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Fwd: The Battlefield

By Jim Sheng
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达则兼济天下，雅能独善其身。
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From: Brenda Sheng <brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:13 PM
Subject: Story
To: Jim Sheng <jim.sheng@gmail.com>


The Battlefield
I am Kyle, I had to join the war since I'm 19. Mother says that I will be okay if I believe in myself. I have brown hair, blue eyes and some weird ''X'' on my stomach. I don't know what this means... The first day of training seemed like hell, I was trained harshly and taught to hold a gun. It was scary, this was the first time I ever thought about war. I never thought war would come to our country... France. The person who trained me was called Captain Francis. I was the shakiest trooper and I got yelled at for not concentrating on aiming. I saw horses and some thoroughbreds, stallions and battle equipment. The training went on and on, the Field Marshal always ordered people around harshly. More about me... I was just a 19 year old boy, living peacefully in a farm with my Mother, Father and my little brother. I would include my sheepdog as my family since he is so close to me, he's called Patch. Captain Francis was a kind man, he was really nice to me and trained me properly. It was summertime and it was really hot. Every night i heard gunshots in the silent black sky. I never liked sleeping at the troopers' wooden hut, I felt like the wood would break and then I and all the troopers would fall to the ground.

 It was getting closer to the time when I go to battle. And I was trained hard by Captain Francis.

When I marched into the battlefield I saw grey, ashy grass and broken wood. You could tell that there was already another fight that was arranged here. The Germans lifted their guns and we charged at them while troopers rode on horses. I lifted my gun and aimed at a Corporal? Then shot.

The bangs and moans of pain lay in my ears and a feeling of fear rose in my mouth. I saw dead bodies laying around me. And a shell hit a tank which created an uncontrollable fire. BANG! A bullet brushed past me and I fired continuously until I had killed 10 people. I felt a sudden pain in my heart... I fell down and mumbled ''God, take me up to heaven'' I felt dizzy and I closed my eyes and that... that was the story of the experience I had, In the battlefield...

The end...

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