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But it too is being threatened by the massive amount of water being drawn from the Athabasca, which feeds these wetlands, and also the incredible toxic burden of the largest toxic unlined impoundments on the planet, which are leaching in to the food chain for all the species downstream.
I hope that you will all, if you've been moved by this presentation, join with the growing international community to get Canada to step up to its responsibilities, to convince Canada to go back to being a climate change champion instead of a climate change villain, and to say no to the tar sands, and yes to a clean energy future for all.
It's shown being presented here, put into its case by the director of the National Museum of Tehran, one of the many women in Iran in very senior positions, Mrs. Ardakani.
Which struck me as particularly remarkable during one session with the novel when I realized that I was being swept along on this remarkable, vivid journey in translation.
Now I was a comparative literature major in college, which is like an English major, only instead of being stuck studying Chaucer for three months, we got to read great literature in translation from around the world.
I don't need a husband who wants to be." (Laughter) Anyway, as I plunged through my 20s ever more aware of how unobtainable the first part of my childhood ambition was, it was that second part, being able to successfully communicate to others whatever knowledge I was gaining, where the futility of my quest really set in.
It takes the base metal of our conventional wisdom and transforms it through ridicule into a different way of seeing and ultimately being in the world.
That ended up being the exact personality trait that was at the core of the scandal that ended his political career.
But back in 2009, the question Joel and I kept turning over and over was why this late in the game so much energy was being spent talking about the science when the policies necessary to address climate change were unequivocally beneficial for humanity in the long run regardless of the science.
They stopped us from being inspired.
And then they blame the banks for being the bad guys who gave them the mortgages.
If you think about people and mortgages and buying houses and then not being able to pay for it, we need to think about that.
It is a jigsaw puzzle still being put together.
Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.
It wasn't easy being Bobby, either.
There's petulance, too, as when Neil Bush, sibling of both a president and a governor, famously griped, "I've lost patience for being compared to my older brothers," as if Jeb and George W were somehow responsible for the savings and loan scandal and the messy divorce that marked Neil in the public eye.
Our father was a hotheaded man, somebody who didn't take kindly to being disturbed on Saturday mornings.
And he would react to being disturbed on a Saturday morning by stalking into the playroom and administering a very freewheeling form of a corporal punishment, lashing out at whoever was within arms' reach.
Parents set up shop and begin stocking their shelves with inventory, the only limitation being sperm, egg and economics.
We process that phenomenon through the same lobe in our brain that processes disgust, meaning we react to the idea of somebody being cheated the same way we react to putrefied meat.
I'm going to get back to this notion of being able to get a virus from your computer, in a serious way.
They found information that was being recorded in wiretaps, a bunch of crimes that were being discussed, sensitive information.
An entire remix community sprouted up that brought it from being just a stupid joke to something that we can all actually be a part of.
KA: By being totally surprising and humorous, Casey Niestat got his funny idea and point seen five million times.
And Fred was lamenting the state of marine biodiversity and the fact that it was in trouble and nothing was being done about it.
Although growth has certainly delivered many benefits, it is an idea so essential that we tend not to understand the possibility of it not being around.
This is the result of faster computers being used to build faster computers.
It's not about being scarce, it's about accessibility.
And they will get healthier by using the Tricorder, and they'll become better educated by using the Khan Academy, and by literally being able to use 3D printing and infinite computing [become] more productive than ever before.
So this robot is actually being commanded remotely by Frank, but the robot can also figure out where to go on its own.
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