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Cameroon, northern Cameroon, boom and bust cycles of hunger every year for decades.
Food aid coming in every year when people are starving during the lean seasons.
We're seeing that now in the Horn of Africa where food prices are up 240 percent in some areas over last year.
And if you look at the 36 countries with the highest burden of malnutrition, that's 260 billion lost from a productive economy every year.
And so that's the project that I pursued for that year, and it's continuing now as well, and found that a specific purine derivative called "guanidine" had inhibited the cell growth by approximately 60 percent.
By the end of this year, there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet that actively use social networking sites.
What first got me thinking about this was a blog post authored earlier this year by Derek K. Miller, who was a science and technology journalist who died of cancer.
And every year there's research done on self-reported shyness among college students.
Jane McGonigal told us last year that by the time a boy is 21, he's played 10,000 hours of video games, most of that in isolation.
Last year, the district attorney whose office prosecuted McKinley's case was convicted of unrelated corruption charges.
(Recording: Letter being unfolded) Anissa Christmas: Dear big brother, I'm making that big 16 this year, LOL.
And in the year 2008, he partnered with me in the first-of-its-kind project that actually allowed us to test and offer something called mindfulness training to active-duty military personnel.
When these heartbreaking images of oiled birds finally began to emerge from the Gulf of Mexico last year during the horrific BP oil spill, a German biologist by the name of Silvia Gaus was quoted as saying, "We should just euthanize all oiled birds, because studies have shown that fewer than one percent of them survive after being released."
About a year prior to this oil spill, a 17-year-old student had invented a degreaser.
Armed with this knowledge, SANCCOB has a chick-bolstering project, and every year, they rescue and raise abandoned chicks, and they have a very impressive, 80 percent success rate.
This is critically important, because one year ago, the African penguin was declared endangered.
And we can't fix it because I.M. Pei's still alive, and every year Harvard and M.I.T. have a joint committee to repair it.
And every year they fail to because they don't want to hurt I.M. Pei's feelings.
And this then, in conjunction with these methods that allow very many DNA molecules to be sequenced very rapidly, allowed us last year to present the first version of the Neanderthal genome, so that any one of you can now look on the Internet, on the Neanderthal genome, or at least on the 55 percent of it that we've been able to reconstruct so far.
Every year or so, I have the privilege of taking clinicians into the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.
It was the origin of the Xerox copier, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year.
There's a lot of exciting things happening in the design world and at IDEO this past year, and I'm pleased to get a chance to share some of those with you.
And if you were here last year, I probably wrestled you to the floor and tried to show you my new EyeModule 2, which was a camera that plugged into the Handspring.
And I took a lot of pictures last year; very few people knew what I was up to, but I took a lot of pictures.
Since 1989, the country has performed at a double-digit rate every year for the last 20 years.
It turns out even during the Cultural Revolution, China out-perfomed India in terms of GDP growth by an average of about 2.2 percent every year in terms of per capita GDP.
If you made that decision in 1965, the down side of that is the next year we have the Cultural Revolution.
And this one's particularly interesting, because, of all the glaciers in North America, it receives the highest volume of human traffic in a year.
So the worldwide capacity to sequence human genomes is something like 50,000 to 100,000 human genomes this year.
This is expected to double, triple or maybe quadruple year over year for the foreseeable future.
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