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But surprisingly, he improved over repeated trials, even though he had no memory of previous attempts.
Our first attempts to get the government of Bali on board failed.
The Wright Brothers built on history's failed attempts at flight, including some of their own, before designing a successful airplane.
In fact, they were up to ten times better at it than those who only thought of the maze while awake between attempts, and those who napped but did not dream about the maze.
Black widow spiders have a disposable penis tip that breaks off inside the vagina blocking the attempts of his rivals, and bed bug males bypass a female's genitalia altogether using a syringe-like penis to inject sperm cells directly into her belly.
It's looking like all attempts to control or prevent sex work from happening makes things more dangerous for people selling sex.
Some of these diversification attempts failed.
Actually, we've made some pretty lame attempts to try to revitalize it.
After all of our attempts to fix the manufacturing model failed, we thought growth could come from elsewhere.
There have been many attempts —none yet proven— and they treat time in different ways.
So the world's first satellite, Sputnik I, was launched in 1957, and in that year, there were only a total of three launch attempts.
It is the nonconsensual sharing of an image used tactically to shame and humiliate a girl or woman that attempts to pornography us.
He told me about all the suicide attempts he's seen in Ferguson's jail; about the time a man found a way to hang himself out of reach of the other inmates, so all they could do was yell and yell and yell, trying to get the guards' attention so they could come down and cut him down.
They were making attempts at seeking support from NGO workers, from refugee camp teachers, professional medics, other parents.
One mother I met had only been in a camp for four days, and had already made two attempts at seeking support for her eight-year-old daughter who was having terrifying nightmares.
But sadly, these attempts are almost always useless.
Since 2012, conservative state legislatures across the US have ramped up attempts to roll back African-American voting rights by passing restrictive voter ID laws and curtailing early voting opportunities.
And what I'd like to know: Have you seen any attempts or conversations from Middle America of what can I do to understand the so-called coastal elites better?
These myriad voices of humanity are not failed attempts at being new, failed attempts at being modern.
The myriad voices of humanity are not failed attempts at being us.
In another study with over 30,000 high school students, they found that for each hour of lost sleep, there was a 38 percent increase in feeling sad or hopeless, and a 58 percent increase in teen suicide attempts.
And one of the causes of this, I think, is that as each of us attempts to build this new kind of worldview, this holoptical worldview, this holographic image that we're all trying to create in our mind of the interconnection of things: the environmental footprints 1,000 miles away of the things that we buy; the social consequences 10,000 miles away of the daily decisions that we make as consumers.
To make sure that we responsibly advance technology that could enable us to embrace the future while fiercely protecting all of us from any person, company or government that attempts to unlawfully access or alter our innermost lives.
By that point, I basically had a master's degree in escape attempts.
Others end up on inadequate wooden canoes in desperate attempts to reach Spain.
I have spent so much time defending myself against attempts to demonize me and make me apologize for who I am, trying to portray me as something that I'm not, some kind of thug or gangster, a menace to society.
After failed attempts to build rafts, and a stinging betrayal by local pirates, the rebels made a desperate run to break through Crassus’s lines– but it was no use.
I built a web interface for viewing "The Whale Hunt" that attempts to do just this.
In one of "Ariel's" most forceful poems, "Lady Lazarus," she explores her attempts to take her own life through Lazarus, the biblical figure who rose from the dead.
The anthropologist Donald Brown has tried to list them all, and they range from aesthetics, affection and age statuses all the way down to weaning, weapons, weather, attempts to control, the color white and a worldview.
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