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This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Burden
Rapidly
Putting
Development
Countries
Brake
Efforts
Disease
Double
Many
Serious
We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Work
Best
Food
Together
Other
Chronic
Address
Defining
Physical
Physical Activity
Prevent
Factors
Also
How
Diseases
Diet
Order
Process
Work Together
Companies
Activity
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Suffering
Abortion
Hypocrisy
Unwanted
Morality
Accepting
Becomes
Mothers
Children
Dying
Pregnancies
Means
Illegal
Connection
This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Work
Health
Needs
Together
World
Cause
Sick
Worldwide
Syndrome
Find
Threat
Spread
Cure
Stop
Work Together
Now
We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Seen
Dead
Tracks
Stopped
Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.
Hanneli Mustaparta
Me
Perspective
Projects
Angle
Gives
Attend
Another
Because
Blog
Get
Behind
Being
Different
Lending
Lens
Different Perspective
Shows
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
Hanneli Mustaparta
Emailed
Out
Photographers
Online
Had
Knew
Self-Taught
Questions
Manual
Figure
Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
Hanneli Mustaparta
Me
Post
Out
Would
Something
Only
Never
Excite
Put
Blog
Just
Things
I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
Hanneli Mustaparta
Work
Work Hard
Challenge
Say
Has-Been
Along
Come
Know
Learn
How
Prioritize
Been
Just
Hard
Things
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.
Helge Ingstad
Walls
Old
Fishermen
Assumed
Kind
Indian
Indians
Remains
Clear
Houses
Buildings
Were
Very
Site
Use
Sod
I came into the world at the right time.
Helge Ingstad
Time
World
Right Time
Came
Right
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Henrik Ibsen
Life
God
Man
Struggle
First
Wills
He
Whom
Slay
The devil is compromise.
Henrik Ibsen
Devil
Compromise
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen
Man
Marriage
Nothing
Else
Demands
Much
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen
You
Society
Tools
Those
Neither
More
Count
Do You Know
Know
Pillars
Nor
Us
Less
Who
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen
Build
Too
Air
Easy
Castles
Take
Refuge
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen
Finance
Heroes
Rest
String
Slips
Follow
Beads
Like
Off
Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.
Ivar Giaever
Religion
Money
Better
Important
Become
Spend
Ways
Correct
Temperature
About
Only
Better Ways
Support
New
Global
Know
Global Warming
Frequently
Scientists
Hear
Effect
New Religion
Whether
Warming
Really
Who
Actual
Number
There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
Ivar Giaever
Physics
Would
Finite
Finite Number
Point
Main
Know
Were
Them
Theories
Number
When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.
Ivar Giaever
Myself
Good
People
Old
Some People
Living
Good Living
Possible
Some
Physicists
New
Make
Years
Discovered
York
New York
Where
Found
I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.
Ivar Giaever
Future
Science
Field
Inventions
Finite
Resulting
Boundless
Come
Know
However
End
Maybe
Really
'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
Ivar Giaever
Science
Word
Nothing
Scientific
Incontrovertible
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
Ivar Giaever
You
Creative
Win
Patient
Stubborn
Nobel
Self-Confident
Curious
Skeptical
Lucky
Competitive
Need
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Jan Egeland
Daily
Rights
People
Own
Human Rights
Our
Darfur
Civilian
Atrocities
Reports
Human
Against
Ground
Population
Now
Daily Basis
Grave
Receive
Violations
Widespread
Basis
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
Jan Egeland
Border
Logistical
Crossing
Attacks
Major
Also
Operation
Been
Subject
Camps
Mounting
Refugees
Establish
Transfer
Them
Across
Who
Chad
Many
Sudan
Militia
Away
Zone
Assisting
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
Jan Egeland
Today
Conflict
Finally
Statement
Crisis
Darfur
Security
Security Council
About
Civilians
Council
Reach
Parties
Massive
Protect
Concern
Calling
Am
Encouraged
Note
Expressing
Humanitarian
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