The estimated cost of hosting the G 8 leaders for 1.5 days, followed by the G 20 leaders for 1.5 days, reportedly came to more than 1 billion.

So Castro will not attend, Obama will, and the ALBA leaders will probably be divided.

Second, the emptiness of G 8 leaders words puts the world at risk.

So it's only been 20 years that women have been allowed to run the marathon.

I put a team together, a little over 13 months ago, got up to 20 some odd people.

Ever since Nelson Mandela brought together a group of former global leaders to form The Elders, we, its members, have focused on Sudan s plight.

But then we hit the 20th century and we entered a new culture that historians call the culture of personality.

But the key issues lingering in the minds of the G 20 leaders will be exchange rates and global imbalances.

And you see in the more equal countries on the left Japan, Finland, Norway, Sweden the top 20 percent are about three and a half, four times as rich as the bottom 20 percent.

So the 20,000 lion figure that you just saw is actually a red herring, because there may be 3,000 or 4,000 male lions, and they all are actually infected with the same disease.

During the 20th century, it became common to consider individual decades as historical entities in themselves.

Audience Hello. I read somewhere that in the last 20 years, the average lifespan of basically anyone on the planet has grown by 10 years.

If I split Tanzania in its income, the richer 20 percent in Tanzania has more HIV than the poorest one.

Of the many diseases of humans that were found to be caused by viruses in the 20th century one, smallpox, has been eradicated.

If G 20 leaders fail to accept that responsibility, and instead choose the path of economic nationalism, the future could look bleak.

This is essentially the same amount that the G 8 leaders pledged to give each year to the world s poorest countries to support maternal and child health.

And on Thursday, 13 September, religious leaders gathered in Kandahar to call for calm and peaceful protests over the film.

My hope is that world leaders, when they arrive here in September, will be ready to take the decisions that are needed, and I hope they will adopt them as a package.

Reactions like these ought to be far more worrying to China s leaders than any rebuke from a group of Norwegians.

In the 20th century, British mathematician Alan Turing predicted mechanisms of morphogenesis which give rise to patterns of spots and stripes.

And if you look at them, the slate of the post colonial leaders an assortment of military fufu heads, Swiss bank socialists, crocodile liberators, vampire elites, quack revolutionaries.

The call by the Group of Eight leaders last July to resume substantive work at the Conference on Disarmament was a political message at the highest level.

At their Summit in Kananaskis, Canada, in June 2002, the leaders of the Group of Eight announced the G 8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction to address non proliferation, disarmament, counter terrorism and nuclear safety issues.

This year is a test for us all, especially the leaders of the G8 nations, who really are on the line here, with all the world in history watching.

The G 8 leaders promised last year to fight hunger with 22 billion in new funds, but so far they are not delivering.

And at Google, as many of you know, about half of the new products in a typical year are birthed during that 20 Percent Time things like Gmail, Orkut, Google News.

At the diplomatic level, Europeans could threaten to deprive Russia of the prestige it draws from participating in G8 and EU Russia Summits.

After 18 years with Square, he left in 2004 to found his own company called Smile Please, and the music label Dog Ear Records.

Discoveries about the electrification of the atmosphere via sensitive electrical instruments and ideas on how the Earth s negative charge is maintained were developed mainly in the 20th century.

In order to achieve more balanced and sustainable GDP growth, China s leaders must implement a set of deep, comprehensive, and long lasting institutional reforms aimed at boosting TFP.

Second, G 7 leaders share a belief in the power of free markets to generate long term prosperity and in the importance of democracy for political stability and social justice.

China s leaders understand all of this.

One other very positive consequence of 20th century technology, though, was the way in which other kinds of calamities could lead to positive advances.

By the end of the 20th century, the painting was a global icon that had been used in more than 300 other paintings and in 2,000 advertisements, appearing at an average of one new advertisement each week.

Although the leaders of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia recently declared they wanted to keep the Visegrad grouping alive even after their countries' enter the EU, the future of Visegrad cooperation is uncertain.

He also welcomed the recent decision of the G8 leaders to erase the debt of HIPCs in Africa and in that connection expressed his support for UNCTAD's invaluable pioneering policy analysis on debt.

Indeed, domestic politicking seems to be at least as important to Japan s leaders as to South Koreas s or China s.

And I believe that the Islamic modernism which began in the 19th century, but which had a setback in the 20th century because of the political troubles of the Muslim world, is having a rebirth.

The Group of Eight (G 8) leaders at their 2005 summit in Gleneagles, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, highlighted the importance of South South cooperation, especially in regard to international support for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

This got the Chinese leadership s attention.

China s leaders called it frustrating.

But China s leaders balked, circumscribing their role severely.

Business leaders are acutely aware of that linkage.

If the G 20 leaders can also make meaningful progress towards resolving the Doha Round of trade negotiations, they will add momentum for global economic stabilization.

On 20 July 2005, he expressed his concern to the Government of Chile and issued a public communiqué about the trial of a group of Mapuche leaders in the city of Temuco, who were accused of forming an illegal terrorist association in connection with a social conflict over land.