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...year 2025. The WRI study translates these trends into the immediate impact to humans: by 2025, over 3.5 billion people--a bit under half the world's population--will experience water shortages. Particularly developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as such populous countries as India, Bangladesh and also to a lesser extent China are at a high risk of facing severe water shortages in the near future...
...sings like he means it, eschewing the whimsy of his later efforts. But the real revelation is Jesse Ed Davis's stinging guitar work; this is the version of "Statesboro Blues" that the Allman Brothers copied, and Davis went on to appear with George Harrison at the Concert for Bangladesh before his untimely demise from drugs. No wonder this band was the only American representative in the Rolling Stones' "Rock 'n' Roll Circus" movie; unfortunately, they never made another album with this kind of fire...
Ashoka has funded more than 1,000 projects, from India to Mexico. Each joins the organization's worldwide network of like-minded social entrepreneurs, exchanging ideas and practical experience. Alumni include Mohammed Yunis, member of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank whose "microcredit" loans of less than $60 have made it possible for thousands of poor women to build their own homes--a success story that attracted attention during Hillary Clinton's trip to South Asia...
...described not only seeing the impact of poverty in what was becoming India and Bangladesh in the 1940s and 1950s but also "the divisiveness...of communitarian politics...
...wrote in his Nobel autobiography that setting up the trusts in India and Bangladesh "gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical" in his country, and he says it reminds him of his days spent as a student, running evening schools and teaching literacy...