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Fairtrade

Aims to secure better deals for farmers and producers in developing countries.

WWF

Campaigns for wildlife conservation and the protection of endangered species.

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Ten busiest airports	Measured by passenger numbers
airport	no of passengers
Hartsfield-Jackson, Atlanta, U.S.A.	90,039,280
0’Hare International, Chicago,IL, U.S.A.	69,353,876
London Heathrow, U.K.	67,056,379
Tokyo International, Japan	66,754,829
Paris Charles de Gauile, France	60,874,829
Los Angeles International, CA, U.S.A.	59,497,539
Dallas-Fort Worth International, TX, U.S.A.	57,093,187
Beijing Capital International, China	55,937,289
Frankfurt, Germany	53,467,450
Denver International, CO, U.S.A.	51,245,334

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A multi-national Corporation is one that produces goods or services in several countries. Companies set up factories in parts of the giobe where labor and materials are cheap and sell their products worldwide Brand names such as McDonalds, Coca Coia, Nike, and Disney have giobai recognition.

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The name of Google, the world’s most popular search engine, is a misspelling of the mathematical word “googol” (ten raised to the power of a hundred). “Google” is now a word in its own right, as in “1 googled his name.”

In North America, _s ^hree out of four people have access to the Internet. In several African

countries, less than of the population

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□ The largest-ever global TV audience for a single live event was 2.5 billion for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.

□ 4.7 billion people—70 percent of the world’s population—tuned in to watch the Olympic Games in Beijing, China in August 2008.

□ An estimated one billion people watched the singer Michael Jackson’s memoriał service in June 2009.

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of plastic are used to bottle water every year.

02: 80 percent of all plastic bottles are simply thrown away.

03: Plastics take up to 500 years to break down.

04: That means that almost all the plastic ever madę still exists—somewhere.

05: A lot of it ends up in the ocean, where it is a danger to marinę life.

06: According to scientists, there is a “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of the United States.