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Only 10 percent of the adult male population signed.
And so this kid was probably abused, abandoned, ignored, betrayed by almost every adult along the way.
So, for such a kid, when an adult that he learns to respect stays close to him and doesn't walk away from him in any situation, irrespective of how he behaves, it's a tremendous healing experience.
It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the water, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of weeks.
Even you, as an adult, have some internalized ideas about sex that you never challenge.
As valuable as that is in Los Altos, imagine what it does to the adult learner, who's embarrassed to go back and learn stuff they should have known before going back to college.
And over the course of the next half-year, he slowly learned to approximate the proper adult form, "water."
Fat-derived stem cells are adult stem cells.
And as it turns out, fat is one of the best sources of adult stem cells.
But adult stem cells are not embryonic stem cells.
And here is the limitation: adult stem cells are mature cells, and, like mature human beings, these cells are more restricted in their thought and more restricted in their behavior and are unable to give rise to the wide variety of specialized cell types, as embryonic stem cells [can].
They discovered that adult cells, taken from you and me, could be reprogrammed back into embryonic-like cells, which they termed IPS cells, or induced pluripotent stem cells.
We have adult stem cells throughout our body; we use those in bone marrow transplantation.
We've been using adult stem cells in clinical trials for about 15 years to approach a whole range of topics, particularly cardiovascular disease.
We as children would stand alongside the adults and give our contributions of money, and our names were inscripted in the community book just like every adult.
And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult got to know me, she turned into a box of ashes and was placed in my hands.
And when you see this kind of behavior, what you see is the evidence of algorithms in conflict, algorithms locked in loops with each other, without any human oversight, without any adult supervision to say, "Actually, 1.7 million is plenty."
The adult literacy rate in China is 77 percent as compared with 48 percent in India.
I live in the Lekki area of Lagos, and in my community, there are at least 50 really nice churches, but there's no adult literacy center, no homeless shelter and very few public schools and hospitals.
Now here's what we know about how adult consciousness works.
Then you start to take a look at adult life.
So as an adult, he went back and got a master's in [Education] and took over a class at White Bear Lake Elementary School.
But for me, I was an adult and it was embarrassing, and I had to learn how to coordinate my new throat with my tongue and my new teeth and my lips, and capture the air and get the word out.
That's an entire second adult lifetime that's been added to our lifespan.
But for me, the possibility is what this child, who will grow to be a teenager and then a real-life adult, will call me for the rest of our lives, was both extremely scary and exciting.
And he showed that if you were to take a baby and an adult and make an average of what it should look like, if it grew in sort of a linear fashion, it would have a crest about half the size of the adult.
But what was interesting was the adult Triceratops was also spongy.
The bone histology tells us that Edmontosaurus is a juvenile, or at least a subadult, and the other one is an adult, and we have an ontogeny.
But this is an approach that doesn't scale up when you start to run into the sorts of problems that arise in adult life.
The juvenile stages of some insects, for example, have completely different kinds of mouths than their adult versions, like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts.
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