In 2008, for the first time in human history, more than half the world's populations was living in towns and cities.

2008年，超过一半的世界人口居住在城镇中，这是有史以来的第一次。

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Rick Rahim from Virginia flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle.

来自弗吉尼亚州的里克·拉希姆以开直升机为生，当他7岁儿子的牙齿松动时，他毫不犹豫地就把牙绑在门把手上。

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Families are pressed for time, many with both parents working to pay for their house, often working hours not of their choosing, living in car-dependent neighborhoods with limited public transport.

家庭的时间很紧迫，许多家庭的父母都在为房子付款而工作，通常无法选择工作时间，他们所在的社区依赖汽车出行，公共交通有限。

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He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

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The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

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In short, investors are dealing with a new set of complex securities, based on loans to a new type of borrower, where the loan terms and conditions may not be clear and at a time when house prices are falling nationally for the first time in living memory.

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However, this reduction is only present for youths who were not living with their parents at the time of the job separation, and is greatly reduced for youths who were living away from their parents at the time of the job separation but moved back home in the subsequent three months.

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America, now is the time for us to stop living in denial.

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