Years
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This object was made by a hominid ancestor, Homo erectus or Homo ergaster, between 50,000 and 100,000
years
before language.
Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto-human history.
And I've been riding with these kids once a week, every Tuesday, rain or shine, for the last four
years
and by now, they've become a very big part of my life.
This story began four
years
ago.
And he spent the last 10
years
of his life in two places only, the slums and the state prison, where he spent the last two
years
before he ended up sitting on this rock there.
When I started this program four
years
ago, I had this original plan of creating a team of winning underdogs.
That's where Joshua descended and crossed the Jordan and led the people of Israel into the land of Canaan 3,000
years
ago in this final leg of the journey from Africa.
And I feel blessed and fortunate that 15
years
ago I had the courage to resign my tenured position at NYU and return to my home country where I can do these incredible rides with this group of troubled kids coming from Ethiopia and Morocco and Russia.
I left when I was 25
years
old to go to Bali, and there I met my incredible wife, Cynthia, and together, over 20 years, we built an amazing jewelry business.
It grows as high as a coconut tree in two months and three
years
later it can be harvested to build buildings like this.
We're going to voyage to some of these special places that we've been discovering in the past few
years
to show why we really need to care.
So within three years, from 2003 to 2006, we were able to get norm in place that actually changed the paradigm of how fishers went about deep-sea bottom trawling.
So my baby, Vander, is eight
years
old now.
Thirty
years
have passed, and I still feel guilty about that prayer, for the next day, I learned that that missile landed on my brother's friend's home and killed him and his father, but did not kill his mother or his sister.
We are missing the story of Fareeda, a music teacher, a piano teacher, in Sarajevo, who made sure that she kept the music school open every single day in the four
years
of besiege in Sarajevo and walked to that school, despite the snipers shooting at that school and at her, and kept the piano, the violin, the cello playing the whole duration of the war, with students wearing their gloves and hats and coats.
She grew up in Sudan, in Southern Sudan, for 20
years
of war, where it killed one million people and displaced five million refugees.
So that woman walked for 20 years, so she would not be kidnapped again.
Did you know that one year of the world's military spending equals 700
years
of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928
years
of the U.N. budget allocated for women?
I've been asking people this question for about 10 years: "Where do you go when you really need to get something done?" I'll hear things like, the porch, the deck, the kitchen.
No one cared about letting people take a smoke break for 15 minutes 10
years
ago, so why does anyone care if someone goes to Facebook or Twitter or YouTube here and there?
The fifth thing is that maybe, after 2,500 years, Plato is still having his way with us in his notion of perfect forms.
My name is Birke Baehr, and I'm 11
years
old.
About 20
years
ago, I was in South Africa, working with the parties in that conflict, and I had an extra month, so I spent some time living with several groups of San Bushmen.
Some
years
ago, I was involved as a facilitator in some very tough talks between the leaders of Russia and the leaders of Chechnya.
How many of you in the last
years
have ever found yourself worrying about the Middle East and wondering what anyone could do?
In a phrase, it's: Four thousand
years
ago, a man and his family walked across the Middle East, and the world has never been the same since.
And then a few
years
ago, a group of us, about 25 of us from 10 different countries, decided to see if we could retrace the footsteps of Abraham, going from his initial birthplace in the city of Urfa in Southern Turkey, Northern Mesopotamia.
And to make a long story short, in the last couple of
years
now, thousands of people have begun to walk parts of the path of Abraham in the Middle East, enjoying the hospitality of the people there.
If you had been in the ruins of, say, London in 1945, or Berlin, and you had said, "Sixty
years
from now, this is going to be the most peaceful, prosperous part of the planet," people would have thought you were certifiably insane.
So let me conclude, then, by saying that in the last 35 years, as I've worked in some of the most dangerous, difficult and intractable conflicts around the planet, I have yet to see one conflict that I felt could not be transformed.
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