Key Quotes for 2003

A world perspective in bite-size chunks
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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
23% of children aged 11 to 16, in the UK, claim never to have heard of the European Union.
Just Right - Issue 6
 
1,500 applications were received in London in 2002 for the first formal qualification - an NVQ - in car clamping.
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More than 1.1 billion people still rely on unsafe water.
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Between April and June, Israel has been hit by 64 terror attacks that claimed 83 lives.
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Sales in the UK hit a record high of 51.2 million games [£1.6 billion] during 2001, grossing more than cinema admissions and video rentals combined.
Just Right - Issue 6
 
Up to 20,000 children and youth are prisoners throughout the Philippines.
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An estimated 1.2 billion people live on less than 70p a day.
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Every year nearly 2 million children worldwide die from diseases that vaccination could have prevented.
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17.6% of children are already orphans (three-quarters left parentless by Aids) and, in Kenya, HIV prevalence among pregnant women ranges from 3% in Mosoriot to 31% in Chuliambo.
Just Right - Issue 6
 
With the average daily wage in Kenya of 70 pence and the cost of a bottle of Fanta orange 20 pence, it's not hard to see why people are so disheartened, especially students.
Presbyterian Herald - Issue February 2003
 
For the past seven years, Nepal has suffered at the hands of Maoist terrorists who want to replace the monarchy and all-party democracy (introduced in 1990) with a communist republic.
Presbyterian Herald - Issue Febraury 2003
 
In the slum town of Kibera, 700,000 people, one third of the population of Nairobi, are living in 21,115 structures.
Just Right - Issue 6
 
Middle-American, suburban white kids make up 80 per cent of all rap music buyers.
Urban magazine
 
He died for all humankind. He (Jesus) suffered for all of us. It's time to get back that basic message. The world has gone nuts. We could all use little more love, faith, hope and forgiveness.
Mel Gibson - Christian Herald - Issue February 1st, 2003
 
Has September 11th made you less materialistic? 92% stated 'Yes'.
Christian Herald - Issue December 14th, 2002
 
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