It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

作为一代生活在人类历史上信息容量经历最大规模膨胀的历史阶段，我们是不幸的，这是因为信息的极大丰富比起信息匮乏来把更多东西破坏了。

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A meeting held last week at the Pasteur Institute in Paris heard how the next generation of drugs will target not the microbial agents of infectious illness but their human hosts.

Pasteur研究所上周在巴黎举行的一次会议上，人们提出了下一代的药物将不再把目标锁定为传染性疾病致病微生物本身而是他们的人类宿主。

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The greatest discovery of our generation in that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

我们这一代人的最大发现就是人类可以经由过程改变立场来改变本身的生活。

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Finding the balance between biodiversity conservation, and human dietary need may well constitute the toughest challenge any generation in human history has had to confront, in a context of 7 billion hungry people.

FORBES: A Call to Agricultural Action

Rather, we should learn from Gen Y, arguably the most communicatively adept generation in human history, and embrace the huge strides in collaboration brought forth by these new technologies.

FORBES: 5 Ways Gen Y Is Changing Your Business, Like It Or Not

Only a day after their study was published in the journal Nature, the UN's environment and biodiversity agencies warned that some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Reading the chimp book of life