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You observe that, over the course of the millennia, Earth is continually bombarded with asteroids up until a point, and that at some point, corresponding roughly to our year, 2000 AD, asteroids that are on a collision course with the Earth that otherwise would have collided mysteriously get deflected or they detonate before they can hit the Earth.
Last year, the Hansard Society, a nonpartisan charity which seeks to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics published, alongside their annual audit of political engagement, an additional section devoted entirely to politics and the media.
There are six billion mobile phone subscriptions as of last
year.
Every single year, 1.5 billion mobile phones roll off production lines, and some companies report their production rate as being greater than the human birth rate.
One hundred fifty-two million phones were thrown out in the U.S. last year; only 11 percent were recycled.
We failed woefully that first year, barely recruiting 100 brave souls.
To unlock these opportunities, through models similar to ours, they would require 150 billion dollars a
year
in financing.
I was at one of their fundraising events earlier this year, and I was inspired to give a one-off donation when I remembered that my firm offers to match the charitable contributions its employees make.
So it would work like this: If in a given
year
the government gave 0.2 percent of its income to overseas aid, the central bank would simply top it up with a further 0.2 percent.
One of the things that I did, I was so consumed by these questions and also frustrated by those stories, that I left my job so that I could study this full time, and I took a
year
to travel to different parts of the world to learn about effective and ineffective leadership practices in companies, countries and nonprofit organizations.
Our team last
year
in Honolulu, which in this case was three full-time fellows who were doing a
year
of public service, were asked by the city to rebuild the website.
It's happening across the globe, and one of my favorite examples is from Mexico City, where earlier this year, the Mexico House of Representatives entered into a contract with a software development firm to build an app that legislators would use to track bills.
Why am I risking my life each
year?
This year, we start the process, with the Angolan government, to establish one of the largest systems of protected areas in the world to preserve the Okavango-Zambezi water tower we have been exploring.
The first human genome, that of James Watson, was mapped as the culmination of the Human Genome Project in the
year
2000, and it took about 200 million dollars and about 10 years of work to map just one person's genomic makeup.
I say here that Newton did a lot of things that year: gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow.
Last
year
we learned, for example, that it's been used to target Moroccan journalists by the Moroccan government.
In the last
year
or so, the company has opened a sales office in Maryland.
What I thought was most fascinating was they've actually paid for the coffee break at one of the law enforcement conferences earlier this
year.
The
year
is 1800.
Just for malaria itself, there are a million deaths a year, and more than a billion people that need to be tested because they are at risk for different species of malarial infections.
In 2015, I made one robe a week for the entire
year.
In fact, I saw Oliver do one of these strawberry DNA extractions about a
year
ago, and this is what led me into this bizarre path that I'm going to talk to you right now.
Over the next year, while my family was righting itself, I started to realize that even if I could go back into government, I didn't want to.
Over the 40-day travel period of Chinese New Year, three billion trips are taken, as families reunite and celebrate.
Now, the most strenuous of these trips are taken by the country's 290 million migrant workers, for many of whom this is the one chance a
year
to go home and see parents and their left-behind children.
In just its third year, Hitch served 30 million trips in this past holiday season, the longest of which was further than 1,500 miles.
But about a
year
and a half ago, I moved from my home in New York City to Hong Kong to become the CEO of the South China Morning Post.
On-demand travel, between bikes and cars, now accounts for 10 billion trips a
year
in China.
In Luo's first
year
back home, he was able to employ 15 villagers.
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