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We can now reprogram your skin cells to actually act like a pluripotent embryonic stem cell and utilize those, potentially, to treat multiple organs in the same patient, making personalized stem cell lines.
We've known about this for a long time, but it's not too late if we act now.
Some of our talks today, we still act like that.
These electrodes act like mini pacemakers to get the cells to contract in the lab.
I knew that the simple act of listening in an empathetic way could have a profound effect.
But I guess in a world which is dominated by professionalizing everything we do, I really understood that that simple act of listening could have such a life-changing effect.
And their decisions about software coding, engineering, design, terms of service all act as a kind of law that shapes what we can and cannot do with our digital lives.
And their sovereignties, cross-cutting, globally interlinked, can in some ways challenge the sovereignties of nation-states in very exciting ways, but sometimes also act to project and extend it at a time when control over what people can and cannot do with information has more effect than ever on the exercise of power in our physical world.
The local police don't act, or if they do, there's not enough evidence, or for some reason we can't take them down.
What's your act two?
So if you need to have some image of what's happening in the stock market right now, what you can picture is a bunch of algorithms that are basically programmed to hide, and a bunch of algorithms that are programmed to go find them and act.
The last 20 years has been the age of intervention, and Afghanistan is simply one act in a five-act tragedy.
In the third act, we went into Bosnia and Kosovo and we seemed to succeed.
In the fourth act, with our hubris, our overconfidence developing, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the fifth act, we plunged into a humiliating mess.
The original is typically the product of a creative act, the forgery isn't.
The idea there behind these two pictures is that the Chinese government can act above rule of law.
It's something that we have in common and they act as our primary interfaces for the world.
And in the end, some of these things just act as invitations.
But really the most satisfying experience I've had is the act of listening, which is what we need in any good relationship.
They package it with the red ribbon that reminds us of HIV, put it in boxes that remind you who paid for them, show pictures of your wife or husband and tell you to protect them or to act prudently.
... cold, thick shake, act like you know how to flip, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, french fries, ice cold, thick shake, act like you know how to jump.
And she would act as if she liked it or she didn't.
So she'd act as if what she wanted was just the opposite of what the babies wanted.
This is the last act on this Earth of a little girl called Heidi, five years old, before she died of cancer to the spine.
It's the last thing she did, the last physical act.
And they start up that path by accepting a core proposition, and that proposition is the following: Lying is a cooperative act.
Truth number one about lying: Lying's a cooperative act.
One of the things about working at the nanoscale is things look and act very differently.
The very act of looking at a quantum particle changes it.
Questions like: "Have you ever witnessed or participated in any act that may be detrimental to the United States or a foreign nation?"
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