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Now there is an epidemic of obesity: two-thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids.
What's really concerning to me is that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the past 10 years, and this may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter life span than we do.
So you're looking at roughly one percent of the brain of a cockroach.
Only 6.8 percent of all our philanthropic giving in the U.S. right now benefits rural communities, and yet 20 percent of our population lives there.
Racially, the county is about 60 percent African-American, but what happens in the public schools is most of the privileged white kids go to the private Lawrence Academy.
So the public school students are about 86 percent African-American.
There's basically no pool of qualified teachers to pull from, and only eight percent of the people in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher.
In fact, two years ago, only 27 percent of all the third- through eighth-graders were passing the state standard in both English and math.
Right now I should say, there are only 10 percent of the houses that actually have an in-home Internet connection.
Since the high in the early 1990s, with about 50 such civil wars ongoing, we now have 30 percent fewer such conflicts today.
Only 10 percent of the adult male population signed.
Unemployment on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation fluctuates between 85 and 90 percent.
Thirty-nine percent of homes on Pine Ridge have no electricity.
At least 60 percent of the homes on the reservation are infested with black mold.
More than 90 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty line.
The school dropout rate is up to 70 percent.
Fifty percent of the population over the age of 40 suffers from diabetes.
Eighty percent of the cocoa comes from Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana and it's harvested by children.
In fact, about 80 percent of the active ingredients in medicines now come from offshore, particularly China and India, and we don't have a governance system.
In math education, we're spending about perhaps 80 percent of the time teaching people to do step three by hand.
Local means that 20 percent of the population of the school has to be Balinese, and this was a really big commitment.
The "high seas" is a legal term, but in fact, it covers 50 percent of the planet.
With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.
To me, as an international lawyer, this scared me far more than any of the creatures or the monsters we may have seen, for it belies the notion that you can actually protect the ocean, the global ocean, that provides us all with carbon storage, with heat storage, with oxygen, if you can only protect 36 percent.
We can stop the collision course of 50 percent of the planet with the high seas.
How can we 100 percent guarantee the safety of our kids?
Eighty percent of refugees around the world are women and children.
Ninety percent of modern war casualties are civilians.
Seventy-five percent of them are women and children.
Not one, but 50 percent.
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