If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
During summer or charity games I'll wear my bright orange or green or turquoise ones and guys are always like, 'Why are your shoes so bright?'
I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.
What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.
I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.
Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.
I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.
I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.
It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.
