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Shocking News! - leucetios - 04-06-2006

http://et.tv.yahoo.com/newslink/13614/

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Shocking News! - ntype - 04-06-2006

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-real shocking news-
# Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
# The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
# Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
# Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp

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