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So that's just the eye of the bee with a microscope, and now all of a sudden you can see that the bee has thousands of individual eyes called ommatidia, and they actually have sensory hairs in their eyes so they know when they're right up close to something, because they can't see in stereo.
It was consuming so much of our time after hours on weekends that we thought, we either need to close this down or figure a way to fund Movember so that I could quit my job and go and spend more time in the organization and take it to the next level.
We can just raise taxes a bit and close that gap, especially if we raise taxes on the rich.
And behind this powerful disagreement between how to close that gap, there's the worst kind of cynical party politics, the worst kind of insider baseball, lobbying, all of that stuff, but there's also this powerfully interesting, respectful disagreement between two fundamentally different economic philosophies.
For example, in brotherhoods, fraternal organizations, sororities, locutions like "the family of man," you try to get people who are not related to use the relationship type that would ordinarily be appropriate to close kin.
It's a species close to human, with several advantages over mice: They're free, you don't shave them, they feed themselves, and nobody pickets your office saying, "Save the lab medical student."
It's a noisy material, and if we produce roads like in the Netherlands, very close to cities, then we would like a silent road.
It's becoming obvious that the chance that life does not exist elsewhere in the universe, and probably fairly close to us, is a fairly remote idea.
You're not even close.
It made me feel ashamed to see people that were this close to me that were hungry, and this only reinforced why I do this, and people asked me, "Fin, aren't you afraid people are going to steal your food?"
EM: It was a close call.
We came very close to failure, but we managed to get through that point in 2008.
And it's also something that resides in each of us, to close what I think are the two big calamities in the world today.
And so chapter one really begins today, with all of us, because within each of us is the power to equal those opportunity gaps and to close the hope gaps.
And celebrate them: tell their stories, because not only are there good people doing good work, but their stories can help close these gaps of hope.
And I believe if we do these things, we can close the opportunity gaps, we can close the hope gaps.
It's sprinkled around, but if you average the chimps out, they're really, really close, within .01.
Well, then, because of electronic tattoos, maybe all of you and all of us are very close to immortality, because these tattoos will live far longer than our bodies will.
A more effective way to think about my relations might be in terms of closeness and distance, where at any given point in time, with any single person, I am both close and distant from that individual, all as a function of what I need to do right now.
People aren't close or distant.
I had a close friend from college who'd gone through a divorce and wanted to have children.
I will close by saying that, if we solve this for the local market, it could be impactful not only for the coders in Nairobi but also for small business owners who need reliable connectivity, and it can reduce the cost of connecting, and hopefully collaboration within African countries.
We close the doors and hunker down, convinced that we're in control, or, at least, hoping for control.
So, why don't we close all of the high seas to fishing?
If you close your eyes and think of a cloud, it's probably one of these that comes to mind.
Maybe, but we're going to be keeping a very close eye on that case.
When I was 13, a close family friend who was like an uncle to me passed away from pancreatic cancer.
And so I'm just plugging and chugging through this gargantuan task, and finally, on the 4,000th try, when I'm close to losing my sanity, I find the protein.
And so in the next two to five years, this sensor could potentially lift the pancreatic cancer survival rates from a dismal 5.5 percent to close to 100 percent, and it would do similar for ovarian and lung cancer.
You see, I searched far and wide, but never bothered to look close and near.
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