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So I tell them that growing up, as a kid in a Catholic family in New Orleans, during Lent I was always taught that the most meaningful thing one could do was to give something up, sacrifice something you typically indulge in to prove to God you understand his sanctity.
It's hard to know how many animals are on these drugs, but I can tell you that the animal pharmaceutical industry is immense and growing, from seven billion dollars in 2011 to a projected 9.25 billion by the year 2015.
Maybe they exaggerated their style because they thought that they were not considered to be quite civilized, and they transferred that generational attitude or anxiety onto us, the next generation, so much so that when I was growing up, if ever on the television news or radio a report came up about a black person committing some crime — a mugging, a murder, a burglary — we winced along with our parents, because they were letting the side down.
Quality of air became better, and we started harvesting seasonal fruits growing effortlessly right in the backyard of our house.
And we're going to have high school kids growing Phalaenopsis orchids in the middle of the inner city.
Where the idea is, if we can stop the tumor from growing, we can stop the tumor from spreading.
Over the last few years, actually more than a few, Ethiopia has been growing much more rapidly.
They are in this constant state of wonder, and I do firmly believe that we can keep listening like these seven-year-old children, even when growing up.
Thomas, I want to ask you two or three questions, because it's impressive how you're in command of your data, of course, but basically what you suggest is growing wealth concentration is kind of a natural tendency of capitalism, and if we leave it to its own devices, it may threaten the system itself, so you're suggesting that we need to act to implement policies that redistribute wealth, including the ones we just saw: progressive taxation, etc.
And yet, I am growing nostalgic about my country of birth.
There are many when low, who stop growing.
Initially, this too was amazing: growing economy, excellent infrastructure, and it seemed like it was a model for economic development in Africa.
Now, all these experiences of living in different parts of Africa growing up did two things to me.
They're much more accountable to their people, they've improved macroeconomic policies, and we are seeing for the first time Africa's growing, and in fact it's the second fastest growing economic region in the world.
Africa today has the fastest growing population in the world, but also is the poorest.
It used to grow on the mainland, but through the sheer pressures of urbanization has been pushed out of the mainland, and we've managed to bring it back from the brink of extinction by developing in vitro plants which are now growing in the wild.
I think it all started growing up in a fairly religious, moral family, eldest son of a rabbi, going off to university where I smoked some marijuana and I liked it.
Ethan Nadelmann: Chris, the most amazing thing that's happened of late is that I've met a growing number of people who have actually lost a sibling or a child to a drug overdose, and 10 years ago, those people just wanted to say, let's line up all the drug dealers and shoot them and that will solve it.
And that is this: the farm is called Polyface, which means ... the idea is he's got six different species of animals, as well as some plants, growing in this very elaborate symbiotic arrangement.
And this is a lot more than growing food, as you'll see; this is a different way to think about nature and a way to get away from the zero-sum notion, the Cartesian idea that either nature's winning or we're winning, and that for us to get what we want, nature is diminished.
So I thought, well, I'll just do piazzas, and I'll get inside and underneath and I'll show these things growing and show why they're shaped the way they are and so on.
Turns out the fashion industry in Pakistan is very strong and growing day by day, but there is less contribution from the tribal areas and to the tribal areas, especially women.
Sughar will still be growing.
I actually started to see some of this growing evolution and awareness myself cropping up all over China.
Deforestation was growing fast and accelerating at the end of the '90s and the beginning of the 2000s.
Now the emissions today are 50 billion tons, and it's growing.
It's growing and maybe it will be 61 by 2020.
And third, most importantly, because of the growing income disparity between the rich and the middle class in the West, there is a big disconnect between existing products and services and basic needs of customers.
But this depends on choosing a voluntary simplicity, growing qualitatively, not quantitatively.
I told myself it was because I was growing up and maturing, not that I was suddenly looking for acceptance.
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