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Non-negligible, so we don't live in an entirely local or national world, but very, very far from the 95 percent level that you would expect, and the reason's very simple.
I know famous musicians, I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists and top lawyers and television executives and magazine editors and national journalists and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground, as if it were somehow Kryptonite, as if it were a time bomb strapped on the inside.
Many countries have developed national action plans for change.
Fascism denies all identities except the national identity and insists that I have obligations only towards my nation.
The criminologist Manuel Eisner scoured all of the historical records across Europe for homicide rates in any village, hamlet, town, county that he could find, and he supplemented them with national data, when nations started keeping statistics.
Thus the national debt.
This graph shows the national debt as a percentage of America's GDP, and as you see, if you go all the way back to the founding, we borrowed a lot of money to fight the Revolutionary War.
This was a golden age of bipartisanship, at least in terms of the parties' ability to work together and solve grand national problems.
But even if you blame nobody, it still is a national problem, and one side has been more concerned about it than the other.
Please raise your hand right now if you're willing to admit that all four of these are national problems.
Because Americans on both sides care about the decline in civility, and they've formed dozens of organizations, at the national level, such as this one, down to many local organizations, such as To The Village Square in Tallahassee, Florida, which tries to bring state leaders together to help facilitate that sort of working together human relationship that's necessary to solve Florida's problems.
Fifty-six percent of the parliamentarians are women, which is fantastic, and there's also within the national constitution now, you're actually not allowed to say Hutu or Tutsi.
There is a precedent for technology-enabled service that has been initiated by politicians in multiple countries and has been hugely successful: national lotteries.
Our government didn't design the national lottery, it didn't fund the national lottery, it doesn't operate the national lottery.
This act defines what a national lottery will look like.
Let's call it national e-markets, NEMs for short.
This would be a world of very small trades, but very well-informed, because national e-markets will deliver data.
I loved these people, and I admired their freedom, but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble exploded into these raging debates where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.
Aware of the devastation and the challenges, I was keen among many other women to rebuild the Libyan civil society, calling for an inclusive and just transition to democracy and national reconciliation.
Did the zipper list and the alternation between female and male candidates bring peace and national reconciliation?
Our society needs national dialogue and consensus-building more than it needed the elections, which only reinforced polarization and division.
So this tells us that, in a global economy, it is no longer national improvement that's the benchmark for success, but the best performing education systems internationally.
Number two, very quickly: How do you solve global climate change when we don't even have a national energy policy in this country and when gridlock in Congress seems to be the norm?
Forty-eight states opted in, creating a national [education] policy from the bottom up.
In fact, I was in China to see what they were doing, and they were putting on a dog-and-pony show for the group that I was with, and I was standing in the back of the room during one of the demonstrations and standing next to one of the Chinese officials, and we were watching, and he says, "So, Gov, when do you think the U.S. is going to get national energy policy?"
What if several of the high-net worth companies and individuals who are here at TED decided that they would create, band together, just a couple of them, and create a national competition to the governors to have a race to the top and see how the governors respond?
When I was a young man, a young biologist in Africa, I was involved in setting aside marvelous areas as future national parks.
When I came to the United States, I got a shock, to find national parks like this one desertifying as badly as anything in Africa.
EM: Since our primary competitors are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.(Laughter)
They could do it a little bit faster and a little better on national TV, and "I'm sorry, Ken.
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