Three Countries Don't Use the Metric System

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Priority changes could eliminate starvation

Yes, hunger could be ended. Education provided. Wells drilled.

clipped from www.borgenproject.org Annual Cost of Improving the World • $19 billion: Eliminates starvation and malnutrition globally. • $12 billion: Provides education for every kid on earth. • $15 billion: Provides access to water and sanitation. • $23 billion: Reverses the spread of AIDS and Malaria. The Cost in Perspective • $522 billion: U.S. Military budget this year. • $340 billion: Cost of Iraq War thus far. Sources: World Bank, National Priorities Project

Largest Ship Graveyard

At the very bottom there is a link to see it out on Google Maps....Check it out!

clipped from crazytopics.blogspot.com Largest Ship Graveyard Published 18 February 2007 by markzmann The Bay of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, is the largest ship graveyard in the world. More than 300 old ships (most of them 25-50 years old) from all nations were dumped here during last 20 years. There is no mystery in how those ships got there, for years Mauritanian harbor officers were taking bribes and allowing ships to be discarded in the harbor. Discarding a ship is very expensive so during the years many companies from all over the world got rid of their unwanted ships cheaply in the Bay of Nouadhibou. You can see the entire bay filled with rusting abandoned ships on Google Maps