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And this is a real problem, because companies have argued for 20 to 30 years against regulating the internet better, because users have consented to the terms and conditions.
And also, what we can do because it's an index, is add together all those indicators to give us an aggregate score about how we're performing against the total package of the SDGs.
In 2015, the world score against the SDGs was 69.1.
And inclusiveness is looking at things like violence and discrimination against minorities, gender equity, LGBT inclusion, etc...
We cannot change these societies, but we can help the people in these societies who are struggling and usually failing, because the odds are so stacked against them.
They held nothing against us, and again I was astonished.
And on the day of our record attempt, we put furniture pads on the outside of our good luck jeans and we set off, and right away, we were in trouble, because the denim was against our skin and it began to chafe, and soon our knees were being chewed up.
Now, I know some of you won't believe me when I tell you this, but I am not against fear.
So I'm not against fear.
Now, I'm not saying your girls must be firefighters or that they should be paragliders, but I am saying that we are raising our girls to be timid, even helpless, and it begins when we caution them against physical risk.
And so I sort of felt like Steve Jobs, who described his epiphany as when he realized that most of us, as we go through the day, we just try to avoid bouncing against the walls too much and just sort of get on with things.
The ones that we call broad-spectrum will even work against a whole bunch of bacteria out there.
Compare that to phages, which work extremely narrowly against one bacterial species, and you can see the obvious advantage.
To me, phages are the superheroes that we have been waiting for in our fight against multidrug-resistant infections.
Most of the time, countries still persist in behaving as if they were warring, selfish tribes battling against each other, much as they have done since the nation-state was invented hundreds of years ago.
They're not going to come at this hammer and tong against each other.
With me, first of all, Gretchen Carlson, who has spent a decade working at Fox News, hosting "Fox and Friends" and then "The Real Story," before taking a courageous stance in filing sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes, which eventually led to his departure from Fox News.
People would you describe you as right of center, and yet here you are with this visceral reaction against him and some of what he stands for.
And that actually, at least for a number of years, when I started at National Review with William F. Buckley, it made us sharper, because we were used to arguing against people every day.
There are certain words that there should be some social sanction against, but some of it was used to enforce a political agenda.
What do you think, or when, will Republicans be motivated to take a stand against Trumpism?
GC: But also because they're all concerned about reelection, and Trump has so much power with getting people either for you or against you, and so, they're vacillating every day, probably: "Well, should I go against or should I not?"
Only 16 percent defined it as, "violent holy war against unbelievers."
To intentionally harm people psychologically, to hurt people physically, to destroy people mortally, or ideas, and to commit crimes against humanity.
So they, right there, you know, they took me out the door, they put my hands against the car.
To be a hero, you have to learn to be a deviant, because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
But that's just the electrons in your body pushing back against the electrons in the seat, opposing the force of gravity.
My mother and father immediately began speaking out against the crisis.
Set against a backdrop of bright gas, the black hole's massive gravitational pull bends light into a ring.
Research for decades by social psychologists indicates that if you hold a negative stereotype about a group in your subconscious mind and you meet someone from that group, you will discriminate against that person.
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