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One of the ways you know it's worked so well is that almost nobody in Portugal wants to go back to the old system.
And I began to think, I began to see why that approach doesn't work, and I began to think that's almost like the importing of the logic of the Drug War into our private lives.
Some of it, of course, is just the sheer magnitude of almost everything about them.
These fish are almost as out of place as my pig that flew.
So you've probably observed that cats almost always land on their feet.
I guess if they took almost any one of you, and placed you alone with a chimpanzee on some island, the chimpanzee would do much better.
Next stop: Almost Heaven, a cabin I rented for myself in Coeur d'Alene, in the beautiful North Idaho panhandle.
As a matter of fact, we are currently using laser pulses to poke or drill extremely tiny holes, which open and close almost immediately in HIV-infected cells, in order to deliver drugs within them.
We had almost 300 blood samples from healthy human beings 20 to 89 years of age, and we measured over 100 of these communication factors, these hormone-like proteins that transport information between tissues.
It's almost trivial.
It's almost like magic.
A remarkable idea, and yet evidence is growing almost weekly, with new papers coming out, confirming that this does indeed take place.
Every year, we spend billions of dollars, keeping a fleet of nuclear submarines permanently patrolling the oceans to protect us from a threat that almost certainly will never happen.
I started drawing on the layers of glass, almost like if you drew on a window, then you put another window, and another window, and you had all these windows together that made a three-dimensional composition.
That's almost 27 feet.
Each of the seven mirrors in this telescope will be almost 27 feet in diameter.
But now, there are almost 2,000 other planets orbiting other stars that we can now detect, measure masses for.
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize [winner] in economics, once wrote: "Productivity is not everything, but in the long run, it is almost everything."
If you're hoping to live to be 85 or older, your chance of getting Alzheimer's will be almost one in two.
For almost a century, we didn't know much about these.
Writing six hundred years after the Saxon invasions, he cobbled together fragments of myth and poetry to compensate for the almost complete lack of official records.
These stem cells have come in and repaired, in yellow, the bone, in white, the cartilage, almost completely.
Well, it turns out that those cells used in that laboratory, they're male cells, and the animals used in the animal studies were male animals, and the clinical trials have been performed almost exclusively on men.
You can almost see the shape as it springs from someone's mouth.
The Syria war has driven almost four million people over the borders, but over seven million people are on the run inside the country.
And the thing is, almost anything that could possibly happen here today, or at any point in the future, can also be expressed as a probability, too.
Karstic regions cover almost 20 percent of the continents' surface, and we know actually that speleologists in the last 50 years have explored roughly 30,000 kilometers of cave passages around the world, which is a big number.
There are strong winds, and there are almost 4,000 millimeters of rainfall per year, so it's really, really difficult to find good conditions.
They led to longer lifespans, the eradication of mass disease, mass housing, almost universal education.
Visual communication was the medium that spoke far louder than words when the population of over 90 million voices were suppressed for almost 30 years.
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