As a child, Ted Turner lived a very lonely life, often separated from his family.During World War II, his father served in the Navy.Ed Turner took his wife and daughter with him so they could live nearby but left his 6­year­old son behind in a boarding school in Cincinnati, Ohio.When Ted Turner was in the fifth grade, his father enrolled him in a military academy.Even though Turner had friends at school, it didn’t make up for the absence of his parents and sister.Eventually Ted Turner enrolled at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.He attended college off and on, became involved in sailboat racing, and became a member of the U．S.Coast Guard for a while.In his early twenties, he became general manager of one of his father’s branch offices—the Turner Advertising Company in Macon, Georgia.

　　Two years later after his father’s suicide, Ted Turner took over the company.He soon discovered that he was more skilled than his father in managing the business.During the next twenty years, Ted Turner worked hard to accumulate enough power and money to fulfill his father’s dream.

　　Reflecting on his father’s death, however, Ted Turner realized that it was dangerous to put too much emphasis on material possessions.He decided to use his hard­earned influence to serve the public.

　　Concerned about the environment, Ted Turner established the Better World Society in 1985.The purpose of this organization was to produce documentaries to educate people about pollution, hunger, and the danger of building weapons of mass destruction.In 1986 Turner began sponsoring the Goodwill Games to promote world peace.The Turner Tomorrow Awards were created to encourage writers and thinkers to focus their attention on solving world　problems.The Turner Family Foundation was established in 1992.

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