Shotgun one can every time you hear the words, "Sixth generation," "Teleportation app," "MRI-vision," "Literal retina display," "ends famine," "iWormhole," or "self-aware".
The tickets will be used as prizes to encourage people to become involved in causes like fighting poverty in the third world, eradicating polio, building schools and ending famine.
Americans won't rush to intervene in "failed nations," nor will they volunteer to fight in remote civil wars (other than Spain, of course), but they could be convinced that they should send troops to "end famine".
It also drove the "green revolution" in agriculture that ended famine in much of the world and, by some estimates, saved 1.5 billion lives exactly the sort of impact that the Gateses hope to achieve.Their foundation has got off to an impressive start, not least by raising public awareness about AIDS and poverty in developing countries.
CEO of Be Bold Media, a digital media firm for campaign organizers around the world; Cofounder of End Famine, a campaign dedicated to seeking sustainable solutions to global hunger.
Sabrina Hersi Issa is the CEO at Be Bold Media, a digital media agency focused on global advocacy, and the co-founder of End Famine, a campaign dedicated to developing sustainable solutions to global hunger.
Gary Nabhan is an agricultural geographer at the University of Arizona, who has written on food security, diversity and famine in his new book from Island Press, WHERE OUR FOOD COMES FROM: Retracing Vavilov's Quest to End Famine.
These are features which amazed Vavilov on his visit to Ethiopia nearly a century ago; they continue to offer traditional farmers more long-term resilience and food security in the face of climate change and rising fossil fuel costs than can any imported or top-down solution proposed to end famine.
"We should be extremely angry – people are still dying unnecessarily, long after we have the capacity to end famine".
Borlaug's research is credited with having ended famines around the world and saved a billion lives.
Shamans' séances are devoted to healing their coreligionists, ending famines and adverse weather, finding lost articles and people, and so forth.
