And obviously, the hardship that occurred because of that made that dream even a little bit further out of reach for too many people.

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"It has been a long-time dream for all optical researchers to reach the terabit per second mark, " says Kuwahara Hideo, one of the 20 researchers at the Fujitsu lab.

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Today, because of that hope, coupled with the hard and painstaking labor of Americans sung and unsung, we live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach for people of every color and creed.

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Over the last two decades an incredible two billion people have gained access to clean drinking water for the first time, so it's not such a pipe dream to argue that we should reach the remaining 783 million by this date.

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