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The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.
Those times, there were some early attempts also for light therapy already.
Chaz Ebert: It was Chaz who stood by my side through three attempts to reconstruct my jaw and restore my ability to speak.
And there are historic attempts that have had some level of technical success.
And in my attempts to create gender neutrality, I was inadvertently privileging masculinity over femininity.
Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results, in all cases.
And unlike our attempts with the resource industry and our attempts with the financial industry, by bringing the human element into this story, I think we can take it to tremendous places.
In science, attempts fail, results prove inconclusive and theories don't pan out.
But all of these attempts have one thing in common.
They're basically attempts at figuring out what people should do instead of rush hour car driving.
They're essentially, to a point, attempts at planning what other people should do, planning their life for them.
[27% of subjects' first 5 SSN digits identified (with 4 attempts)] But in fact, we even decided to develop an iPhone app which uses the phone's internal camera to take a shot of a subject and then upload it to a cloud and then do what I just described to you in real time: looking for a match, finding public information, trying to infer sensitive information, and then sending back to the phone so that it is overlaid on the face of the subject, an example of augmented reality, probably a creepy example of augmented reality.
And the song is based on what I think was my first childhood attempts to think about invisible forces.
The team is proud of our four attempts.
In the Arab region, they brand these attempts as a Western conspiracy to undermine traditional Arab and Islamic values.
And even our best attempts to work up sympathy for those who are unconnected with us fall miserably short, a sad truth about human nature that was pointed out by Adam Smith.
But our attempts at doing this are crude and blundering compared to the fine-grained specificity of the parasites.
Second iteration is the cryptic wetsuit, or the one which attempts to hide the wearer in the water column.
I'll try to use an approach that's slightly materialistic, but it also attempts to convey that, in nature, there is extraordinary philosophy and harmony.
Local conflicts fuel violence in most war and post-war environments, from Afghanistan to Sudan to Timor-Leste, and in the rare cases where there have been comprehensive, bottom-up peacebuilding initiatives, these attempts have been successful at making peace sustainable.
So, the solution to this has been known for some time, and there's many attempts to do it.
And this is one of the attempts to change the lives of children.
If my attempts to reach you have inspired something new in you, I would rather you forget me.
One paper in 1981 found that in 10 out of 21 threatened suicide attempts, there was incidents of suicide baiting and jeering from a crowd.
There are attempts to create milieus, change the hormonal milieu for breast cancer, for instance.
We know he made at least 12 failed attempts to cross the English Channel by hiding in a truck.
Visitors immersed themselves in long conversations about families torn apart, about dramatic escapes from war zones, about suicide attempts, about the fate of children in detention.
Attempts by the government to control Kabuki didn't end with bans on the gender or age of performers.
This process attempts to ensure that the only difference between the groups is the one the researchers are attempting to study.
In events like terrorist attacks and natural disasters, today's media attempts continuous coverage even when no reliable new information is available, sometimes leading to incorrect information or false accusations of innocent people.
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