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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,...

TIGER's Revival and First Romance

Good writing, but not a very interesting story. On 5 Feb 2015 16:58, "Brenda Sheng" < brenda.rili.sheng@gmail.com > wrote: TIGER's Revival TIGER was in heaven, with god, watching LION angrily. God realized TIGER wasn't bad so he gave TIGER another chance to live. TIGER was revived as a female baby tiger named PANTHERA. Meanwhile, LION had a baby boy, with his wife, named LEO. LION was in a fight and LION was older now and weaker so he couldn't beat the opponent. So LION died, leaving LEO with his mother. LEO was out playing one day when he saw a young tiger just about his age, a girl. LEO wanted to make friends, so did PANTHERA so they asked what their names were and started talking and playing together. Before long they became best friends and started hanging out with each other now and then. As they grew older they became so close you could barely see them apart, PANTHERA had decided she wanted to be part of the lion's pride so she asked LEO if she c...

A chicken rap battle

Once upon a time, in an African Savanna, there was a lion and a tiger. The lion was called LION and the tiger was called TIGER. LION and TIGER were hunting, they didn't know each other yet. LION came across a buffalo and chased after it, TIGER saw the same buffalo and chased after it. They came across each other and they stopped chasing the buffalo. "Hi," said LION, "Hello there," said TIGER in a deep voice. TIGER was hungry, he wanted to eat LION as lunch. LION was hungry, too, LION wanted to befriend TIGER. TIGER pretended to be friendly, so when LION wasn't noticing, he would run for the kill. But LION noticed that TIGER had a plan. So LION sat beside TIGER and listened. LION heard TIGER's stomach rumbling and LION knew for sure he wanted to eat him. SO LION told TIGER about TIGER going to eat him. TIGER growled and now knew that his act wasn't enough, then he challenged LION to a chicken rap battle. What’s that? LION asked. “A chicken ra...