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Similarly, while slum dwellers’ share of urban populations has declined from 39% in 2000 to 33% in 2012 – significantly exceeding the original target of meaningfully improving at least 100 million slum dwellers’ lives by 2020 – their number has grown from 650 million in 1990 to an estimated 863 million today.

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If we look at Islamists, if we look at the phenomenon of far-right fascists, one thing they've been very good at, one thing that they've actually been exceeding in, is communicating across borders, using technologies to organize themselves, to propagate their message and to create truly global phenomena.

The Center for Disease Control estimated that 64,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2016, far exceeding car crashes or homicides.

(Frogs croaking) Mono Lake is just to the east of Yosemite National Park in California, and it's a favorite habitat of these toads, and it's also favored by U.S. Navy jet pilots, who train in their fighters flying them at speeds exceeding 1,100 kilometers an hour and altitudes only a couple hundred meters above ground level of the Mono Basin, very fast, very low, and so loud that the anthrophony, the human noise, even though it's six and a half kilometers from the frog pond you just heard a second ago, it masked the sound of the chorusing toads.

So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram at a cost vastly exceeding the current value of gold.

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