We cannot hope to influence and create change in the world around us, until we have taken on the hard work of creating change in the world within us.

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Customers that Starbucks is now recognizing can benefit from mobile payments not just within the US, but around the world as well.

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Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

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But maybe they inspired us to see things in a new way, to hear things differently, to discover something within us or to appreciate how much beauty there is in the world.

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Vanderwagen also told us he is all but certain that the World Health Organization will, within a few days, upgrade its status to the highest level, Phase 6.

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If the US can increase production by 25% within the decade, could the world?? I doubt it, but we cannot be sure, because there are bound to be fields in other countries ripe for exploitation with the same technology.

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"This will enable us to have the biggest assembling plant in the world to assemble various products - over one million within a day, " he said.

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So I hope that within a matter of just a few years, in the US, in China, and throughout the world, all these engines will be much, much less polluting.

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