The campaigner Richard Hobson, he was a major guy in the US incipient war on drugs-- "Like the invasions and plagues of history, the scourge of narcotic drug addiction came out of Asia." Again, you hear that today and it's just profoundly disgusting. But this was the tenor of language at the time.
got--we seriously got send out as a business idea that somebody believed in. The other one--and there's a theme here. The other one was dog nappies. We've been pitched dog nappies because one of the scourges of life is the fact that you spread dog poo in the park, and wouldn't it be great if dogs just have little, you know, little nappies they walked around in and then you're going to have to, like, scoop up with a plastic bag and they'll . So you make a couple of ideas here if you fancy and start your own business,
So we saw some bad surprises. We saw opioids as a horrible scourge to the country now. We saw the effects of industrial dislocation.
about. I mean, what's both good and bad-- I always say bad for humanity, good for journalism is-- --is that school segregation is a national scourge . There are very, very few school districts that are well-integrated, and most of them are actually in the South.
So the child soldier has been with us for a long time. It's not just a scourge we see today. And he fights in all five of these wars here.
or woman who thinks and knows he thinks. to cut down on the scourge , the epidemic, of PTSD.
Ames was looking at ways to make space flight less expensive. That's one of the scourges of spaceflight is it's so expensive that it's an incredibly high entrance barrier. And one of the things that limits the amount of science missions that NASA can do is the cost of each mission.
effects of cannaboids on bone healing they found that in fact they make bones heal more quickly another one is doing research on CBD and type two diabetes which is an enormous Scourge around the world um another one very interestingly has been doing research on CBD and traumatic brain injury and this is a
And for the first time, we'll be able to connect gleaning organizations to the farms, just like we now connect home gardeners to the pantries. And we'll go further into ending this scourge , really, of wasted food in the country. Let me see if I can get this working.
Tragically, but I think historically entirely provably, one of the first major British encounters with China was the forcing open of markets to sell opium into China, which became a huge scourge that affected large parts of society for many decades after that. The so-called Opium War is a term you may well have heard, which still live in Chinese historical memory in the present day.
DR. KATABARWA: Good morning, and thank you for inviting us-- my colleague Ahana. We're here about the topic of ending-- of end the age old scourge . And River Blindness is not the disease of places that you look at and sanitation is bad
Eradication. The way you get rid of bad things is you just-- it's like your iPhone where you just flick the screen and it goes away. And this was the sort of imagination of how technology would liberate us from the scourges of hunger and disease but also from physical barriers-- the over the seas and under them kind of point.
effort to keep our money here has to come at the edge of having some distaste for Judaism and the Jewish people and that could not be further from the truth. Anti-Semitism is a scourge . We have to fight it everywhere we see it and I understand as somebody who's been discriminated against for how I pray just how dangerous that is and I'll be on the front line to fight
We can go in and train the Yanomami, provide the medicines, and everything they need. And treat them. And clear the Western Hemisphere of this scourge . You can see-- for Ethiopia, on this side of the country we have done pretty well in mapping the area.
So, I think what we need is to get people who are interested in this kind of technologies to help us-- put our heads together and to get rid of this age old scourge . Thank you very much.
Certainly there's been a lot of hype in the media surrounding this issue. China can be either the savior of the global economy, or the scourge of good global governance, or it's undermining international security because of its willingness to do business anywhere at any time.
harvard yeah you guys are area dad i like it this is in the mit area like obviously it's crimson and i should have chosen different colors because you're right it is yankee hater is uh it's kind of what uh they're our scourge it's kind of our uh modus operandi rezandetra and other french words that i don't know what they mean um and latin uh and they really wouldn't be
human experience and human ingenuity have gradually chipped away at this problem just like we have gradually mastered other scourges of nature like pestilence and hunger. In fact,
talents, a fool's bladder with which to beat society and a Marxist a whip with which to scourge himself.
That the Son of God, the most powerful incarnate being in the history of the universe, allowed himself to be scourge and humiliated and taken out
Throughout the first 10 months of 1967, Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. had grown increasingly fed up with a scourge that was spreading
And not just New York City-- London, Paris, New Orleans-- all these places were plagued by this scourge .
That doesn't contain cholera, or typhoid, or any other number of waterborne diseases which have been the scourge of humanity throughout history?
Thanks to everyone for being here for this talk about River Blindness Disease, and how technology is helping to end this age old scourge that effects 37 million people in Africa.