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Other chimps would bring food to him, they would bring wood wool to him, which is this thing that they use to sleep in and build nests out of, and females would put the wood wool behind his back.
He was leaning heavily against the wall, and the way we do with pillows to patients in a hospital, they were putting that stuff behind his back.
In chimpanzees, we have usually old males who are over the hill, who cannot be alpha male themselves anymore, but they start playing games and forming coalitions, and behind the backs of others.
Tom Friedman, in his recent New York Times article, captured, in the way that no one else could, the spirit behind our effort.
I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work.
No to killing, in this case no to killing men of religion, because Sheikh Ahmed Adina Refaat was shot on December 16th, during a demonstration, leaving behind three orphans and a widow.
It was hiding behind leftover patches of linoleum on the worn-out floor my mother was having removed.
And she realized straight away that the soldiers with their fingers shaking on the triggers were more scared than the student protesters behind her.
So Peace Direct gets behind them to do that.
Without treatment, Anuk's speech will continue to lag behind.
But also, most importantly, all the invisible people behind TED that you just see flitting around the whole place that have made sort of this space for such a diverse and robust conversation.
And Fraser's on his knees, arms tied behind his back, and he's crying.
And there I was, lying there in this tiny space, hot, dark, claustrophobic, matchbox-sized, behind my eyes, but it was really weird, like, after this went on for days, weeks, months, that space would get bigger and darker and cooler until I really looked forward to that half an hour of enforced immobility and rest, and I really looked forward to going to that place of darkness.
I remember when I was a kid, giving presentations in school, I would have my notes on a piece of paper, and I would put a notebook behind the paper so that people wouldn't be able to see the paper quivering.
That's his little depot behind him, and he earns twice the Nigerian minimum wage.
This is looking down to the east, where the shooting vehicle sped off, and this is the lighting directly behind the father and the teenagers.
Now, there are objects on these shelves, on some of them, and you'll notice there's a guy standing behind the set of shelves, and there are some objects that he can't see.
The director, standing behind the set of shelves, is going to direct you to move objects around, but remember, he's not going to ask you to move objects that he can't see.
But now we try to understand that in terms of the development of a part of their brain called the limbic system, so I'm going to show you the limbic system in red in the slide behind me, and also on this brain.
Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, for two minutes, try doing this, in the elevator, in a bathroom stall, at your desk behind closed doors.
She was very much like those women sitting behind the sewing machines.
The driving force behind this project is my colleague Shmulik London, and, you see, just like Salman did about 90 years ago, the trick is to surround yourself with brilliant people, because at the end, it's all about people.
He would go to antique shops, and the game was as such: When we look at an antique we want, we'll ask the shopkeeper for the story behind the antique, and if it's a good story, we'll buy it.
But the real magic and the secret source behind collaborative consumption marketplaces like Airbnb isn't the inventory or the money.
Now, the story behind TaskRabbit starts like so many great stories with a very cute dog by the name of Kobe.
But the bigger principle of what's happening behind Stack Overflow, I think, is incredibly exciting.
My Internet broke one day, as it occasionally does, and the cable guy came to fix it, and he started with the dusty clump of cables behind the couch, and he followed it to the front of my building and into the basement and out to the back yard, and there was this big jumble of cables against the wall.
It was my first audition, and after three days of playing behind a screen in a trial week, I was offered the position.
What actually happens is, if I compare this to the average real project, average real successful project, the family actually end up in Makassar, South Sulawesi, at a cost of 4,000 pounds, whilst leaving two of the children behind.
Imagine leaving behind your own pet in an evacuation or a rescue.
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