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So I brought some kids in, and this now became the standard of care, and the [Boston] Children's Hospital was behind it.
While that was going on, some of those ancient photosynthesizers died and were compressed and buried, and became fossil fuel with sunlight buried in their carbon bonds.
And it was about that time that I became so smitten by these little cells that I redirected my entire lab to study them and nothing else, and my loyalty to them has really paid off.
And about that time, it became possible to sequence their genomes and really look under the hood and look at their genetic makeup.
It was a movement spearheaded by the Quakers, and it only became popular when Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" became a bestseller.
I did some research on how much it cost, and I just became a bit obsessed with transportation systems.
LP: Yeah, about 18 years ago I learned about people working on automated cars, and I became fascinated by that, and it takes a while to get these projects going, but I'm super excited about the possibilities of that improving the world.
Malala started her campaign for education and stood for her rights in 2007, and when her efforts were honored in 2011, and she was given the national youth peace prize, and she became a very famous, very popular young girl of her country.
As I became more accustomed to the dark, I was able to make out details of the floor and the surrounding walls.
So when I became a fashion model, I felt that I'd finally achieved the dream that I'd always wanted since I was a young child.
Six years ago, I guess, Bill came on full time, so moved from Microsoft and became full time.
This little space became a small phenomenon, and because it had such a profound impact on New Yorkers, it made an enormous impression on me.
I became an incredibly geeky zoning expert, finding ways that zoning could address communities' concerns.
The High Line was an elevated railway that ran through three neighborhoods on Manhattan's West Side, and when the train stopped running, it became a self-seeded landscape, a kind of a garden in the sky.
And when I was appointed, saving the first two sections of the High Line from demolition became my first priority and my most important project.
We recognized kids had rights, we banned child labor, we focused on education instead, and school became a child's new work.
Kids became, in the words of one brilliant if totally ruthless sociologist, "economically worthless but emotionally priceless."
Rather than them working for us, we began to work for them, because within only a matter of decades it became clear: if we wanted our kids to succeed, school was not enough.
What had started as a technical exercise became an aesthetic exercise, really.
So I was persuaded, I was convinced, and we went to work on what became Verdana and Georgia, for the first time working not on paper but directly onto the screen from the pixel up.
And later in life, I became a scientist.
The first thing is radiotechnologies have evolved a lot, and over the last decade, radio technology became much more powerful, so we were able to build very sensitive radios that can sense weak and minute RF signals.
In 1954, Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to run under four minutes in the mile.
Now that record improved and improved as bicycles improved and became more aerodynamic all the way until 1996, when it was set at 35 miles, 1,531 feet, nearly five miles farther than Eddy Merckx cycled in 1972.
But as that idea started to fade away, as sports scientists and coaches realized that rather than the average body type, you want highly specialized bodies that fit into certain athletic niches, a form of artificial selection took place, a self-sorting for bodies that fit certain sports, and athletes' bodies became more different from one another.
I became operational at TED in March 2014.
It was the idea that we were now part of a team in which information became the essential link between us, not a block between us.
And we said, yeah, you're absolutely right, and we drove those liar's loans out of the industry in 1990 and 1991, but we could only deal with the industry we had jurisdiction over, which was savings and loans, and so the biggest and the baddest of the frauds, Long Beach Savings, voluntarily gave up its federal savings and loan charter, gave up federal deposit insurance, converted to become a mortgage bank for the sole purpose of escaping our jurisdiction, and changed its name to Ameriquest, and became the most notorious of the liar's loans frauds early on, and to add to that, they deliberately predated upon minorities.
In other words, both forms of fraud became absolutely endemic and normal, and this is what drove the bubble.
And they largely succeeded, which is how the fraud became endemic.
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