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question I am white, but I am more African than any black person who was raised in America. Should people really still be defined by their race, or is where they come from more important? For example, aren´t African-Americans just Americans?

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by thomas.troxler Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How should the development of developing countries take place? Is micro- finance or macro- finance better?

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by delgersaikhan jadamba Sep 06, 2006 15:12
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question How do we determine "truth" and "fact" when we can manufacture either?

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by Ebon Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Why do so many people in foreign countries that don’t have democracy which are also being oppressed by dictators, get so aggressive against the Western World, which wants to spread our way of life (i.e. not living in fear all the time etc.)

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by CB123 Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How do you counteract violence, anger or hatred?

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by poligence Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question What is the energy balance of renewable energy? Does it produce more energy than its production consumes?

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by Energy Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Will it now take a global government to solve what were once considered national or regional issues yet now affect us all?

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by Michelle Twohig Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Is there something better then democracy?

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by Alex Lindt Sep 05, 2006 14:50
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question When might it become necessary to break the law?

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by Matthew Kelley Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Why is there no peace in Middle East yet?

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by Moise Marabout Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How can the Internet as a global informational tool that criss-crosses entire continents, serve to enhance our own communities?

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by mSTELMACKER Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Can a person be perceptive enough to see our planet in a way that tells them that they too are part of nature?

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by abcq Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What does courage mean now?

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by Sarah Francis Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Is there value in resisting a new technology (genetically modified foods, for instance), which, while potentially harmful in the short term, could save millions of lives in the future?

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by emahleb Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Where does the line between personal freedom and social responsibility towards the common good fall? Who gets to decide?

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by Saphyre Rogers Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question How does consumer culture actually influence the personalities, the ways people live, the way they think within a given culture? How does it become part of us and what does it mean to be able to resist that visual and verbal culture that seems to me is always reducing and simplifying reality into something that can be easily bought and sold?

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by abcq Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question If you had one piece of knowledge to give to the world, what would it be?

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by Gretchen Scheidler Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How come we are so many people but still feel alone?

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by Nadja Holtz Calderón Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How can we protect cities from sameness? How can we retain the identity of different cities?

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by Sara Baig Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How can two answers to a single question be right, but still contradict each other?

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by Matthias Hohlbach Sep 05, 2006 14:50
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question What if all Chinese people want a car?

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by Andrew from DE Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What's after capitalism?

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by Wera Koseleck Sep 06, 2006 15:14
question Why do I as a black American continue to love and defend a country that treats me like an unwanted child?

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by Jason Robinson Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question what is the purpose of public international law if there are no effective enforcement mechanisms to apply it?

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by Maria Kyriacou Sep 05, 2006 14:50
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question What is the future of the city?

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by nick_from_brisbane Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question What are the basic dignities that each human being deserves and why do we let so many people go without them?

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by clairemack Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How much of our liberty we are going to offer for our supposed security?

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by Florian Großer Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How objective is science?

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by Janina Sprenger Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What steps can be immediately taken to prepare all world societies for the pending "Long Emergency" associated with the convergence of peak oil, distruction of biodiversity, climate change, poverty, and global disease?

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by Mike Walters Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question Why is it socially acceptable to hoard wealth while so many go without basic needs?

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by K2toU Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Is corporate social responsibility possible?

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by Adam Furnarie Sep 06, 2006 15:16
question Why is the food we eat of such a bad quality?

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by Sascha Hellmick Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Television is a very powerful communication tool. Why do we use it to spread such unimportant information?

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by MichaelGR Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Do you think, that now we have the internet in our homes, that we are being intimidated and controlled more than ever?

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by chrissy Aug 03, 2006 15:50
question Why is it that when the powerful use force it is called "self-defense" and when the weak use force it is called "terrorism"?

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by Haya El Azzah Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Is the current economic system inherently corrupt? If so, how do we go about dismantling it?

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by Glen Sep 06, 2006 15:11
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question What does the future you want look like?

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by walook Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Do we have the right to consider human beings as more valuable than other life forms?

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by easygisi01 Sep 06, 2006 15:20
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question If Darwin's theory is right about life beginning in Africa, then why are African states less developed than Western states?

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by abcq Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How will the world compensate for the growing energy needs and resource consumption of developing nations like China and India when nations like the United States consume resources disproportionate to their populations?

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by nathandh Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Why is it easier to get a cold can of Coca Cola than a fresh glass of water?

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by Dagmar Seidel Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Why does it seem that life gets more and more stressful with each thing we invent to save time?

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by Desiree Sep 05, 2006 14:50
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question What is your tree? What is it in your life that calls you to be bigger than what you think is possible?

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by abcq Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How can we reconcile respect for universal human rights when these rights conflict with traditional cultural and/or religious values?

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by Frank Davis Sep 06, 2006 15:18
question What can I do, and tell others to do, to stop global warming?

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by Nancy Clemons Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question Why is an Iranian Nuclear bomb supposed to be more dangerous than an American, Israeli or French?

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by Wolfgang Jost Sep 06, 2006 15:26
question What can we learn from Africa?

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by santini297 Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Why don't we dump all patent laws all around the world and stop restraining creativity and innovation?

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by esavard Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What is freedom? Is it relative to where you are in the world?

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by apwong Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Who are your heroes?

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by gasycom Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question The trend in war in the last 100 years has seen a dramatic increase in civilian death... why is this tolerated?

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by Angela Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What is the modern version of colonialization?

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by Adrienn Meszaros Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Does economic globalization promote democracy or consolidate dictatorship?

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by David Dubois Sep 06, 2006 15:06
question How would the world be today if the Africans were never brought over to the Americas to be enslaved?

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by Shoshana Friedman Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How can we stop gang violence in the inner cities and motivate young people to place importance on education instead of killing each other?

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by ruby92052 Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What?s the most important subject in the arts that needs to be talked about and why?

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by Layna Francisco Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Who is profiting from terrorism?

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by Barcelona Forum 2004 Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How can the decent people of the world help each other while the actions of their leadership are self-serving and internationally divisive?

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by Bo Chamberlain Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How can architecture better serve the social, econmic, political and environmental concerns of our present and future?

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by Kenneth Hinchcliffe Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What moves you?

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by nyork Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Is there an ecological limit to economic growth ?

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by David Letellier Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question Can we still be indigenous in the twenty-first century?

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by farem Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Look at domesticated animals - pets - and how their inability to fend for themselves has rendered them largely obese, lazy, dependent, and less curious. In this sense: Are humans becoming domesticated by technology?

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by Ian Manheimer Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How can people in the developed world enjoy cheap products and also criticize China for its rapid industrialization?

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by Qin Chuan Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How could the technology boom of the past fifty years have been more useful to humankind if it wasn't driven by military or market forces?

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by Hilly Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question I would like to know if there?s a way when change is happening that it can happen gracefully and doesn?t have to take innocent victims with it? Is there a way for America to lose its standing as the most powerful nation on this planet without that disrupting the entire planet? Can power ever relinquish power?

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by abcq Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question Does our wealth depend on the 3rd world being poor?

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by Tom Henze Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question If any these questions are answered, how do we get the world to listen?

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by Benjamin McQuillan Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Will it someday be possible to directly connect human brains to machines (like computers) ? If Yes, when and how ?

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by Nicolas Flagey Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What would be the best use for the trillion dollars a year spent by the United States and other countries on their military budgets?

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by Howard Zinn Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Should we have the right to choose where we live?

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by purdylagoon Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question why are women still in a disadvantage?

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by Ramazon Keskin Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Is egoism the reason for human failure?

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by Alain Appel Sep 06, 2006 15:15
question Who's responsibility is it to manage the world's natural resources?

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by Barbara Mark, Ph.D. Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question In your opinion what should a young adult be reading, seeing or experiencing to spark a strong desire and knowledge to become a world-changer?

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by publicrelate Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question What is God`s religion?

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by Miraj Khaled Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Why are we taking the incalculable risk of allowing genetically engineered food crops into the environment without fully understanding the effects and implications?

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by Noah Brotman Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question What are the three most important values a child should be taught?

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by Elena75 Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What are the myths that we need to create to change the world for the better?

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by Keith Dierkx Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Which kind of genetic engineering should be allowed to correct defects and imperfections of genes?

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by Kurt Weidemann Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Does our education system really enable a child to bloom?

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by Sr.Jacintha Fernandes Sep 06, 2006 15:16
question What is today's most important unreported story?

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by aytod Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How can we create a balance between the preservation of local cultures and the development of a global community?

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by Johanna Allen Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question How should an economic system be devised that isn't in conflict with human, animal or planet rights?

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by Jens Vosch Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?

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by Millennium Project Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question AIDS in Africa: how big is our responsibility?

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by Judith from Munich Sep 06, 2006 15:15
question Why do we still believe more in nationality than in humanity?

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by KatharinaD Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question If somehow we could snap our fingers and there would no longer be any drugs in this world, would there be no more suffering? Or is it possible that addiction is not really about drugs, that addiction is really about the relationships that human beings form with one another?

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by Ethan Nadelmann Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Why do we consider some lives to be worth more than others ?

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by MsDemmie Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How can human society be in balance and harmony when there are so few women in positions of power and feminine values are so minimized in all areas?

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by David Woolfson Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Do you know the connection between politics and violence?

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by Yang Shaobin Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question Is the ubiquitousness of mass media more of an opportunity or a problem?

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by Jerry Mander Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How do we stop our governments from going to war?

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by turboelf Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question What concrete steps can we take to make sure that everyone has a decent education and that people, wherever they are born, have greater opportunity to contribute to the world?

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by Bill Joy Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question Between non-violent resistance and armed struggle where do we go? What is effective? What is the right thing to do? Or do we need a biodiversity of resistance?

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by Arundhati Roy Aug 30, 2006 15:14
question How can we create communities that are sustainable so that we stop using up resources at a rate far faster than they can be replaced?

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by Cat Matlock Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question Are brands more powerful than governments?

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by Barcelona Forum 2004 Sep 05, 2006 14:50
question At a time when the concepts of 'self-defense' and 'humanitarian intervention' are being redefined, how are we to tell the difference between 'holy war' and 'just war'?

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by Sandra Schaede Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question We are in the knowledge age. How can the increase in access to technology (Internet and computer) among low- income communities help to promote social and economic development?

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by abcq Aug 30, 2006 15:14
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question If we produce enough food to feed everyone in the world, why don't we?

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by aquariusamy Sep 05, 2006 14:50