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That's where Joshua descended and crossed the Jordan and led the people of Israel into the land of Canaan 3,000 years ago in this final leg of the journey from Africa.
Then we crossed the border into Syria, went to Aleppo, which, turns out, is named after Abraham.
The little boat in front of it was the one in which, 80 years later, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic.
I crossed that finish line.
And we've crossed our first threshold.
So we've crossed a fourth threshold of complexity.
But in 2007, my path crossed again with the Indus script.
The planet has crossed the halfway mark a few years ago.
One day, I crossed the bridge over the Oxus River.
A couple of times I crossed the front line in the very place where Mahmoud and his son were crossing.
And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease.
So fingers crossed.
It had the central fluid, it had the surrounding wall, and the reinforcing fibers in the wall were arranged in crossed helices around the long axis of the skeleton.
So I went ahead, collected wall tissue, prepared it so it was erect, sectioned it, put it on slides and then stuck it under the microscope to have a look, fully expecting to see crossed helices of collagen of some variety.
But I had three days of life support, and everybody was expecting, due to just the massive amount of what they had had to do that I wasn't going to make it, so it was three days of everybody was either waiting for me to die or poop, and — (Laughter) — when I finally pooped, then that somehow, surgically speaking, that's like you crossed some good line, and, um — (Laughter) — on that day, the surgeon came in and whipped the sheet off of me.
If we have any doubts about the effects of this separate rule book, this statistic is sobering: From 1970 to 2009, the number of nonprofits that really grew, that crossed the $50 million annual revenue barrier, is 144.
In the same time, the number of for-profits that crossed it is 46,136.
But look at this closely and you can see that actually they've crossed a different threshold.
They've crossed a brain threshold much earlier, that perhaps not at age 22 or 20, but even by age 15 or 16 you can begin to see the trajectory for development is quite different at the level of the brain, not at the level of behavior.
If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom, this child wouldn't have existed, and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened.
After I was in that village, I crossed the lake, and I saw that the volcano was erupting on the other side, Gunung Batur, and there was a dead volcano next to the live volcano.
For 900 points, I'd agree to go out on a date, and I wouldn't even consider any kind of relationship before somebody had crossed the 1,500 point threshold.
Why would there be crossed wires in some people?
This had never crossed my mind.
He hasn't RSVP'd yet, but fingers crossed.
When the opportunity came, I crossed two oceans, with borrowed money for airfare and only a $20 bill in my pocket.
Over and well over three million people have crossed the borders and have found sanctuary in the neighboring countries, and only a small proportion, as you see, have moved on to Europe.
And less than five weeks ago, after 105 days, we crossed this oddly inauspicious finish line, the coast of Ross Island on the New Zealand side of Antarctica.
I asked you to imagine yourself in that home, because I wonder what crossed your mind.
With a sample size of just one child, no matter how much we love her, you don't really have enough of a sample size to figure out what happens on average, but at two years old, she hasn't had an ear infection yet, so we're keeping our fingers crossed on that one.
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