Yet they all inhabit an extreme emotional world, and listening to the whole cycle is a disturbing and enriching experience.
The extreme weather the world is seeing now is a precursor to more, he said.
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And an analysis of children who had faced extreme hunger after World War II were more likely to develop schizophrenia.
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Extreme poverty in the world has decreased considerably in the past three decades (figure 1).
Many are coming from a world of extreme poverty and would take the chance for a multi-million dollar lifestyle for themselves and family.
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The world situation is more extreme: the USDA says global food prices rose 25% last year, and set a record in January as world grain inventories suffered an estimated 13% decline.
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The contrast with the outside world was so extreme as to cause disorientation, dizziness.
Last November Scott Owens of Gilbert, Ariz. set a world record (Extreme class) of 179.6 decibels inside his Ford F-250.
"You live in extreme isolation from the real world, " Eszterhas wrote.
Zorbing - effectively throwing yourself down a slope in a giant ball - was invented in New Zealand in 2000 and is now a popular extreme adventure sport around the world.
Aside from making lists like the one that Olthuis created for LifeInsure, Brent Csutoras suggested trying quirky and extreme content (think "world's largest" or "most dangerous") or headlines tied to current events.
Looking west from our bedroom's rear window we could sometimes see inland as far as the dark treeline of the Watchungs, a low-lying mountain range fringed by great estates and affluent, sparsely populated suburbs, the extreme edge of the known world and about eight miles from our house.
One billion people in the world today live in extreme poverty, without any access to health services and quality education.
And he plans to launch a quarterly magazine in Europe filled with stories and pictures evoking the Red Bull world: music, extreme sports, night life, social trends.
Alongside conducting these environmental science studies, the second part of the expedition's research will involve studying the expedition members themselves under a human science protocol titled "White Mars" whilst enduring the world's most extreme conditions.
Calling Hurricane Katrina "a portal into the future, " he says it is already too late to avert a rise of up to one degree that will lead to Arctic meltdown, extreme drought across much of the world and the destruction of low-lying island nations such as Tuavalu and the Maldives.
While these are some of the most well-known companies in the world, they are but extreme examples of an important phenomenon that generates personal and societal wealth.
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Scientists are quick to point out that no single storm can be blamed on climate change, but say a warming world raises the odds of extreme weather.
Illiteracy keeps women marginalized and constitutes a foremost obstacle to reducing extreme poverty in a technology-driven world where reading, writing and numeracy are indispensable for enjoying basic rights and opportunities.
While for years scientists have cautioned that a single weather incident cannot be conclusively linked climate change, mounting evidence is proving that a warming world does bring more frequent extreme weather and a larger magnitude to such events.
But there is - the way to interpret this I think is that there is a discernible influence on all of these events, of global warming nowadays, and it's effecting drought, it's effecting extreme rainfall events in particular around the world.
Mr. Annan, who convened the meeting to help salvage a peace plan for Syria he brokered in April, warned that the country's deepening conflict posed "extreme dangers" to the region and the world, and reprimanded countries for competing agendas which have locked the international community in a stalemate while often fueling the violence inside Syria.
At the other extreme is Australia, the only place in the world where most homes are sold by auction.
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Extreme droughts currently cover about 2% of the world's land area, and that is going to spread to about 10% by 2050.
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The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said.
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At that time, the World Bank estimated 125 million people were in extreme poverty.
In 1983 Dave Cuthbertson climbed a route called "Requiem", graded Extreme eight - at the time the hardest in the world.
These are the kind of extreme weather events that are becoming more common in a warming world.
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