All of the following are reasons for hope in the 21st century EXCEPT
A) more people are living longer and healthier.
B) modern medicine has cured or slowed polio, small pox, measles, typhus, and cholera.
C) the Green Revolution has turned China and India into food-exporting nations.
D) the end of the Cold War.
E) none of the above.
Ans: E) none of the above.
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