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The captain of a New Zealand vessel who was just down there is reporting a significant decline in the number of the Ross Sea killer whales, who are directly dependent on the Antarctic toothfish as their main source of food.
They have a skill, which makes them much less dependent on foreign aid.
Eleven African governments have seen that they can become less dependent by using this technology.
Number two: the most common finding in neuroscience studies, looking at effects of long-term exercise, is improved attention function dependent on your prefrontal cortex.
And they have big cities, and the cities are all dependent on oil.
Because the algorithms of Wall Street are dependent on one quality above all else, which is speed.
And we take this utterly for granted, because we're a species that is so at home with language, but you have to realize that even the simplest acts of exchange that we engage in are utterly dependent upon language.
And what this does is it raises the possibility to us that in a world in which we want to promote cooperation and exchange, and in a world that might be dependent more than ever before on cooperation to maintain and enhance our levels of prosperity, his actions suggest to us it might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
And our babies and children are dependent on us for much longer than the babies of any other species.
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth.
They are dependent on others.
You kept moving ahead in a life where you're dependent on working for somebody.
It's very much dependent on the skill and the experience of the midwife.
Because maintaining a pregnancy is dependent on hormones.
Our relationship with the ocean, much like our gut, is dependent on the right balance of microbes.
During the Mumbai siege, terrorists were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that as the terrorists were shooting hostages with one hand, they were checking their mobile phone messages in the very other hand.
We should be able to be dealing with these things at this level, and these conclusions say that growth and malignant behavior is regulated at the level of tissue organization and that the tissue organization is dependent on the extracellular matrix and the microenvironment.
We are dependent on one another, and admitting this to ourselves isn't an embrace of mediocrity and derivativeness.
It's partly dependent on the environment that the animal or the human is in, and the synapses that are being used are strengthened, and synapses that aren't being used in that particular environment are pruned away.
Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.
So think, for instance, of someone who has a recurring but unpredictable medical condition, or somebody who's caring for a dependent adult, or a parent with complex child care needs.
One of the reasons is a lot of their telephones use IP protocol and use things like Skype and so on that go through the Internet right now, and so in fact we're becoming dependent on it for more and more different things, like when you take off from LAX, you're really not thinking you're using the Internet.
Okay, so we have a democracy, no doubt, but it's dependent upon the Lesters and dependent upon the people.
So here too we have a democracy, a democracy dependent upon the funders and dependent upon the people, competing dependencies, possibly conflicting dependencies depending upon who the funders are.
The framers gave us what they called a republic, but by a republic they meant a representative democracy, and by a representative democracy, they meant a government, as Madison put it in Federalist 52, that would have a branch that would be dependent upon the people alone.
It's a pathological, democracy-destroying corruption, because in any system where the members are dependent upon the tiniest fraction of us for their election, that means the tiniest number of us, the tiniest, tiniest number of us, can block reform.
A government dependent upon the people alone.
It's dependent on hospitals and clinics for our every care need.
It's dependent on specialists who just look at parts of us.
It's dependent on guesswork of diagnoses and drug cocktails, and so something either works or you die.
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