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But still it was a real footrace against the other volunteers to get to the captain in charge to find out what our assignments would be.

Instead of working in harmony with my environment, I was working against it.

Now don't get me wrong; I am not against teaching English, all you English teachers out there.

But I am against using it as a barrier.

Against all odds, I achieved my dream, and through this very personal commitment to myself, I slowly realized that completing the Ironman was about more than conquering Kona.

Since 1988, more than 2.5 billion children have been immunized against polio, and an estimated 16 million children, who otherwise would have been paralyzed like me, are walking.

My father made false papers for the American deserters who did not wish to take up arms against the Vietnamese.

My father made false papers for the dissidents against Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, against the colonels' dictatorship in Greece, and even in France.

At first I was against it.

I returned to Singapore and, in 1990, performed Asia's first successful cadaveric liver transplant procedure, but against all odds.

And the Chinese gave this small ruling elite loads of military weapons and sophisticated technology in order to ensure that people like me would not speak out against this relationship.

Without provocation, suddenly she attacked, against her Prime Minister's orders, the next-door neighbor's oil fields.

Creationists, lacking any coherent scientific argument for their case, fall back on the popular phobia against atheism: Teach your children evolution in biology class, and they'll soon move on to drugs, grand larceny and sexual "pre-version."

And at this point I need to acknowledge the remarkable taboo against speaking ill of religion, and I'm going to do so in the words of the late Douglas Adams, a dear friend who, if he never came to TED, certainly should have been invited.

To put it bluntly: American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

This could be similar to the campaign organized by homosexuals a few years ago, although heaven forbid that we should stoop to public outing of people against their will.

They help in the digestion of essential nutrients, and they protect you against certain diseases.

The same technology that has produced the human insulin in bacteria can make viruses that will not only protect you against themselves, but induce immunity against other viruses.

Believe it or not, there's an experimental trial going on with vaccine against influenza that has been grown in the cells of a tobacco plant.

In the history of the past 50 years, the smoking risk shows how a model changes, and it also shows how an industry fights against a model it doesn't like.

So evidence against our model, we're likely to ignore, even if it's compelling.

It's not against women, it's for us, for us women, for our children.

I talk against violence, against terrorism.

I go to schools to talk to young, Muslim girls so they don't accept to be married against their will very young.

You have to fight against violence.

So if we could figure out what cells they are, we could maybe find new targets for which drugs can be designed or screened against or maybe places where electrodes could be put in for people who have severe disability.

They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators.

So if you brush up against it, any place you brushed against it, you get this twinkling blue-green light that's just breathtaking.

And juxtaposed against this grid, you see actually, by rolling over each individual one, the humanity behind this hugely mechanical process.

Let me give you an example: in Turkey, where I come from, which is a very hyper-secular republic, until very recently, we used to have what I call "secularism police," which would guard the universities against veiled students.

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