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JeffBridges.com - End Hunger
We have a food pantry at church, of course, but the End Hunger Project aims higher: convince our government that hungry people in a country with a supposedly “strong” economy shouldn’t have to rely on private charity to get enough to eat.

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World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers | News_ | Guardian Unlimited Money
And half the people on this Earth share 1% of the total wealth. Disgusting.

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Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: “Young man! Do you want to learn electrical engineering the seven passwords of the Gnomon?”
…well, you know the obligatory ingredients of a supervillian’s lair?
* Underground
* Big, heavy, inscrutable machinery
* Some kind of platform or catwalk
* [...]

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…of the simple fact that most schools don’t have girls-only latrines, water to wash with, or privacy. Once puberty arrives, many girls simply stay home.
Another School Barrier for African Girls: No Toilet
The article notes that if girls and women had access to all the normal goods and services their societies offered, such as a basic [...]

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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Illiteracy ‘hinders world’s poor’
The regions found to have the lowest levels of literacy are sub-Saharan Africa, south and west Asia and the Arab states, where only 60% of the population are able to read and write.
Women remain more at risk of illiteracy, with only 88 women worldwide [...]

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