Worldwide Survey: Poverty Crisis


	Worldwide Survey: Poverty Crisis

ninadalton

7-8-2008 9:53 PM

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food, poverty, crisis, survey, environment, country, america, australia, africa.

ninadalton says:

A humorous take on the faults of countries.

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7-24-2008 11:15 AM

Okaniba

Very funny. It tells how careful we need to be in framing questions when sensemaking is a problem. Thanks for sharing.

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