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This forest was almost completely cleared for timber, agriculture, cattle ranching and the construction of cities, and today only seven percent of the Atlantic forest is still left standing.
In my view, such an extension of the Internet can only work if it's almost energy-neutral.
I will show you why that, philosophically, is almost an impossibility.
Almost 80 people died that day.
That means that Nike's customers make almost twice as much profit as their closest competitor.
And yet this is a common practice in almost every world religion today.
Folding a paper in half, even a paper as fine as that of the Bible, 25 times would give us a paper almost a quarter of a mile.
Summarizing, if we fold a paper 25 times, the thickness is almost a quarter of a mile.
My wife is pregnant right now with our first child, and when people see her with her big baby bump, the first question people ask, almost without fail, is, "Is it a boy or is it a girl?"
These mysterious things just hint at all of the things that are going on in the minds that are with us on Earth that we almost never think about at all.
Astronomers are now almost able to tell us what the product of the first three terms is.
We're now finding exoplanets almost everywhere.
So we had to design in a context that we knew almost nothing about, except one thing: it would all be about verticality.
These modules were stacked together with the idea that almost any function could, over time, occupy any of these modules.
They almost always say things that aren't true.
And in this surreal, otherworldly place, it's almost possible to imagine that you hear the muffled footfall of skin boots on soft earth, or that you see the flickering of a torch around the next bend.
His wife, who's almost due with their first baby, called him from inside the mall to say she is in labor and needs to get to the hospital immediately.
Almost like what you'd see in Parkinson's disease.
That little guy contains almost half of the neurons in the entire brain.
At 17, Lucius has almost completed his education.
My heart beat will drop from about 60-70 per minute to about 30-40 beats per minute in a matter of seconds; almost immediately.
In fact, its atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide, and is almost 100 times thicker than our own.
Technetium is so rare it couldn't be isolated until it was synthesized in a cyclotron in 1937, almost 70 years after Dmitri predicted its existence, 30 years after he died.
Pretty much all the titles on them were by British or North American authors, and there was almost nothing in translation.
Having spent my life reading almost exclusively British and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and finding stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world.
Things that until then seemed simple became almost impossible to do alone.
But Braille went digital many years before digital books, already in the late 1980s, almost 30 years ago.
And yet despite all that hard work being done for us and all that wealth that we gain, we have done almost everything we possibly could to destroy that.
And yet, almost everyone I meet, no matter how educated, is not sure what a coral is or where they come from.
And we almost took out an entire generation of corals.
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