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Just over three years ago, I was for the first time in Caracas, Venezuela, and while flying over the city, I was just amazed by the extent to which the slums reach into every corner of the city, a place where nearly 70 percent of the population lives in slums, draped literally all over the mountains.
In 1984, in what can only be considered one of the greatest crimes of humanity, nearly one million people died of starvation in my country of birth, Ethiopia.
Nearly three years ago, I decided to leave my comfortable job as a World Bank senior economist in Washington and come back to my country of birth, Ethiopia, after nearly 30 years abroad.
Now there are 500 cities, nearly, with a million people or more in them.
Another one is a set of lasers, very high-powered lasers, that fire out of the bottom of the plane, sweeping across the ecosystem and measuring it at nearly 500,000 times per second in high-resolution 3D.
A couple of years ago, I took a passage on the Maersk Kendal, a mid-sized container ship carrying nearly 7,000 boxes, and I departed from Felixstowe, on the south coast of England, and I ended up right here in Singapore five weeks later, considerably less jet-lagged than I am right now.
It wasn't going to be our traditional residential neighborhoods as we had before, and urban agriculture, while a very productive and successful intervention happening in Detroit, was not the only answer, that what we had to do is look at these areas where we had significant vacancy but still had a significant number of population of what could be new, productive, innovative, and entrepreneurial uses that could stabilize those communities, where still nearly 300,000 residents lived.
St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, which has deployed industrial Internet technology to electronically monitor and connect patients, staff and medical equipment, has reduced bed turnaround times by nearly one hour.
All of this has only made satellites bigger and bigger and bigger and more expensive, now nearly a billion, with a b, dollars per copy.
And the right column was created by subtracting the middle column from the left column, showing the difference to be nearly zero.
But the travel options are very limited; plane tickets cost nearly half of their monthly salary.
They now account for nearly half a million active online stores, 19 billion dollars in annual sales and 1.3 million new jobs created.
That's nearly twice the US population.
It's not nearly as big a deal.
They've been fitted to nearly 1,000 patients, 400 of which have been wounded U.S. soldiers.
It was nothing more than his own words that sent him to prison for nearly a decade, until a judge overturned his conviction just a few months ago.
I did an analysis of the data, and found that a typical serif face you see on the left needed nearly twice as much data as a sans serif in the middle because of all the points required to define the elegantly curved serif brackets.
Had he been racing against the winner of the 1904 Olympic marathon, he would have won by nearly an hour and a half.
Now that record improved and improved as bicycles improved and became more aerodynamic all the way until 1996, when it was set at 35 miles, 1,531 feet, nearly five miles farther than Eddy Merckx cycled in 1972.
Yours is probably very nearly so.
But normally we can't access nearly all of it.
It's not nearly enough.
We haven't invested nearly as much in the physical infrastructure to ensure that that happens.
Of the Fortune 250, there are only seven CEOs that are minorities, and of the thousands of publicly traded companies today, thousands, only two are chaired by black women, and you're looking at one of them, the same one who, not too long ago, was nearly mistaken for kitchen help.
Dr. Ma Thida, a leading human rights activist who had nearly died in prison and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think, for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation skills.
For the first time, nearly a majority of people lived in cities, so there was a growing distance between us and nature.
First of all, you are right, change does slow down as we age, but second, you're wrong, because it doesn't slow nearly as much as we think.
And they have nearly unlimited maneuverability with that same structure and unprecedented access to a variety of different areas.
Nearly all of my patients were smokers or ex-smokers, and most of them had started smoking when they were children or in their early teens.
And despite living in a beautiful, wealthy country, with access to the most sophisticated medicines, nearly every single one of my patients died.
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