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The End of Poverty

     Equality is a very big idea, connected to freedom, but an idea doesn’t come for free. In a world where distance no longer determines who your neighbor is, paying the price for equality is not just heart, it’s smart. The destinies of the “haves” are intrinsically linked to the fates of the “have-nothing-at-alls”. If we didn’t know this already, it became too clear on September 11, 2001. Africa is not the front line in the war against terror, but it soon could be.

     “The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty.” Who said that? Not me. Not some beatnik peace group. Secretary of State Colin Powell. And when a military man starts talking like that perhaps we should listen. In tense, nervous times isn’t it cheaper – and smarter – to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them?

    We could be the first generation to outlaw the kind of extreme, stupid poverty that sees a child die of hunger in a world of plenty, or of a disease preventable by a twenty-cent inoculation. We are the first generation that has enough power to do that. The first generation that is powerful enough to unknot the whole tangle of bad trade, bad debt, and bad luck. The first generation that can end a corrupt relationship between the powerful and the weaker parts of the world which has been so wrong for so long.

    If the rich nations decided they could become slightly “poorer”, they would truly help the nations in need. If they agreed to write off the old debts of the poor countries, the whole world would be safer. This year millions of people gathered to persuade world leaders to invest more in fighting poverty and disease in Africa.

     We cannot save energy life. But the ones we can, we must. It is – or it ought to be – unacceptable that an accident of longitude determines whether a child lives or dies. Fifteen thousand people dying needlessly every day from AIDS, TB, and malaria. Behind each of these statistics is someone’s daughter, someone’s son, a mother, a father, a sister, a brother.

    This is Africa’s crisis. That it’s not on the nightly news, that we do not treat this as an emergency – that’s our crisis.

(adapted from Bono’s foreword to the End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs, Penguin Press, and “This is Generation’s Moon Shot”, by Bono in Time)

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The End of Poverty

     Equality is a very big idea, connected to freedom, but an idea doesn’t come for free. In a world where distance no longer determines who your neighbor is, paying the price for equality is not just heart, it’s smart. The destinies of the “haves” are intrinsically linked to the fates of the “have-nothing-at-alls”. If we didn’t know this already, it became too clear on September 11, 2001. Africa is not the front line in the war against terror, but it soon could be.

     “The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty.” Who said that? Not me. Not some beatnik peace group. Secretary of State Colin Powell. And when a military man starts talking like that perhaps we should listen. In tense, nervous times isn’t it cheaper – and smarter – to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them?

    We could be the first generation to outlaw the kind of extreme, stupid poverty that sees a child die of hunger in a world of plenty, or of a disease preventable by a twenty-cent inoculation. We are the first generation that has enough power to do that. The first generation that is powerful enough to unknot the whole tangle of bad trade, bad debt, and bad luck. The first generation that can end a corrupt relationship between the powerful and the weaker parts of the world which has been so wrong for so long.

    If the rich nations decided they could become slightly “poorer”, they would truly help the nations in need. If they agreed to write off the old debts of the poor countries, the whole world would be safer. This year millions of people gathered to persuade world leaders to invest more in fighting poverty and disease in Africa.

     We cannot save energy life. But the ones we can, we must. It is – or it ought to be – unacceptable that an accident of longitude determines whether a child lives or dies. Fifteen thousand people dying needlessly every day from AIDS, TB, and malaria. Behind each of these statistics is someone’s daughter, someone’s son, a mother, a father, a sister, a brother.

    This is Africa’s crisis. That it’s not on the nightly news, that we do not treat this as an emergency – that’s our crisis.

(adapted from Bono’s foreword to the End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs, Penguin Press, and “This is Generation’s Moon Shot”, by Bono in Time)

Bellow you have a series of four pictures involving hilarious situations about Noah’s ark. Read them to answer question.

Bellow you have a series of four pictures involving hilarious situations about Noah’s ark. Read them to answer question.

Noah’s Ark found? Researchers believe this mountain is biblical ship’s final resting place

    Ark investigators believe they have found traces of a wooden structure on Mount Ararat, also known as Agri Mountain, in Agri, Turkey. American researcher Professor Paul Esprante said he intends finding more evidence to prove the Ark landed there. He was one of 108 scientists from Turkey and around the world speaking at the three-day International Symposium of Mount Ararat and Noah‘s Ark in Agri, which looks at evidence put forward for the Ark's final resting place.

    He said: "My purpose is to visit the sites around the mountain to find clues about catastrophic events in the past. I think that rigorous, serious scientific work is needed in the area, and I would like to collaborate in that. We have technical resources and we can work together with local experts. The result of my findings will be published in books, publications and journals, but at this point it is too early to know what we are going to find. Once the scientific community knows about the existence of Noah‘s Ark in Mount Ararat, we can make it available to the general public."

    Dr Andrew Snelling wrote on Answersingenesis.org: "Several teams have continued searching for the real Ark. Most of them have focused on Mount Ararat in northeastern Turkey, where eyewitness accounts of a wooden structure have spurred interest for centuries. The biblical reference to ‗mountains of Ararat‘ as the landing site of the Ark suggests those mountains formed well before the Flood ended. The Flood was a global catastrophe that totally reshaped the earth‘s geology, and the earth‘s surface has continued to change since then. Perhaps the geology of the modern Mount Ararat region sheds light on whether we should be looking for Noah‘s Ark on that mountain."

    Dr Snelling is not convinced it is the right location. "Mount Ararat is thus a post-Flood volcano, which continued to erupt, most recently less than 200 years ago. Thus, from my perspective as a biblical geologist, I do not expect to find Noah‘s Ark on Mount Ararat. Instead, it must have landed on another high mountain in the region at that time."

    There have been claims made in previous years for evidence of the ark being found on the peak. In April 2010 a team of evangelical Christian explorers claimed to find the remains of Noah‘s ark beneath snow and volcanic debris on Mount Ararat. Turkish and Chinese explorers from a group called Noah‘s Ark Ministries International made the claim. Filmmaker Eung Wing-cheung said: "It‘s not 100 percent that it is Noah‘s ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it."

    However, the claim was not widely accepted or confirmed. Paul Zimansky, then an archaeologist specialising in the Middle East at Stony Brook University in New York State, said: "I don‘t know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn‘t find it."

(Available at https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/871000/Noah-s-Ark-found-Mount-Ararat-Turkey)

Noah’s Ark found? Researchers believe this mountain is biblical ship’s final resting place

    Ark investigators believe they have found traces of a wooden structure on Mount Ararat, also known as Agri Mountain, in Agri, Turkey. American researcher Professor Paul Esprante said he intends finding more evidence to prove the Ark landed there. He was one of 108 scientists from Turkey and around the world speaking at the three-day International Symposium of Mount Ararat and Noah‘s Ark in Agri, which looks at evidence put forward for the Ark's final resting place.

    He said: "My purpose is to visit the sites around the mountain to find clues about catastrophic events in the past. I think that rigorous, serious scientific work is needed in the area, and I would like to collaborate in that. We have technical resources and we can work together with local experts. The result of my findings will be published in books, publications and journals, but at this point it is too early to know what we are going to find. Once the scientific community knows about the existence of Noah‘s Ark in Mount Ararat, we can make it available to the general public."

    Dr Andrew Snelling wrote on Answersingenesis.org: "Several teams have continued searching for the real Ark. Most of them have focused on Mount Ararat in northeastern Turkey, where eyewitness accounts of a wooden structure have spurred interest for centuries. The biblical reference to ‗mountains of Ararat‘ as the landing site of the Ark suggests those mountains formed well before the Flood ended. The Flood was a global catastrophe that totally reshaped the earth‘s geology, and the earth‘s surface has continued to change since then. Perhaps the geology of the modern Mount Ararat region sheds light on whether we should be looking for Noah‘s Ark on that mountain."

    Dr Snelling is not convinced it is the right location. "Mount Ararat is thus a post-Flood volcano, which continued to erupt, most recently less than 200 years ago. Thus, from my perspective as a biblical geologist, I do not expect to find Noah‘s Ark on Mount Ararat. Instead, it must have landed on another high mountain in the region at that time."

    There have been claims made in previous years for evidence of the ark being found on the peak. In April 2010 a team of evangelical Christian explorers claimed to find the remains of Noah‘s ark beneath snow and volcanic debris on Mount Ararat. Turkish and Chinese explorers from a group called Noah‘s Ark Ministries International made the claim. Filmmaker Eung Wing-cheung said: "It‘s not 100 percent that it is Noah‘s ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it."

    However, the claim was not widely accepted or confirmed. Paul Zimansky, then an archaeologist specialising in the Middle East at Stony Brook University in New York State, said: "I don‘t know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn‘t find it."

(Available at https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/871000/Noah-s-Ark-found-Mount-Ararat-Turkey)