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They've found in many developing countries that governments have gone in and given out free latrines and gone back a few years later and found that they've got lots of new goat sheds or temples or spare rooms with their owners happily walking past them and going over to the open defecating ground.
He fell 50 feet in the Cayman Islands when his rope failed to catch him hitting the ground's surface.
We've installed tubes throughout the theater, lower to the ground, because CO2 is heavier than air.
They soar in thermals, which are vortexes or little tornadoes caused by pressure differences in the air that form throughout the day as the sun heats up the ground.
Therefore, the importance of vultures is not in the air, but on the ground.
And this is buried below ground, which is really important.
For someone who's done a lot of counterterrorism work, I can't extol to you how great having something buried below the ground is for proliferation and security concerns.
We are with two million trees in the ground now.
It says exactly the same thing: Poor kids lose ground in the summertime.
This is a training ground.
This is a training ground to sort out the Regulars from the Honors, a reoccurring cycle built to recycle the trash of this system.
This is a training ground where one group is taught to lead and the other is made to follow.
She was peeling this palm frond apart, these little threads off of it, and she'd roll the threads together and make little thicker threads, like strings, and she would weave the strings together, and as the materiality of this exact very bag formed before my eyes over those three days, the materiality of the way the world works, of reality, kind of started to unravel in my mind, because I realized that this bag and these clothes and the trampoline you have at home and the pencil sharpener, everything you have is made out of either a tree or a rock or something we dug out of the ground and did some process to, maybe a more complicated one, but still, everything was made that way.
And I'll just hook up a little ground wire to it.
There were times when my projects failed to get off the ground, or, even worse, after spending tons of time on them the end image was kind of embarrassing.
And that project continued, did succeed, and we then got into other projects in aviation and mechanical things and ground devices.
With a little bit of practice, it's pretty straightforward for a human being to do this, although we do have the advantage of having two feet on the ground and the use of our very versatile hands.
It becomes a little bit more difficult when I only have one foot on the ground and when I don't use my hands.
We can't help but hold our breath when we watch a diver somersaulting into the water, or when a vaulter is twisting in the air, the ground fast approaching.
We were there originally to look at toilets and get human waste off the ground, that's fine.
He's got significantly less gut infection because he's now got toilets, and there isn't human waste on the ground.
It was in the football ground.
These crocodiles were actually out on the land and they were even climbing trees and jumping on prey on the ground.
There's an old joke about a cop who's walking his beat in the middle of the night, and he comes across a guy under a street lamp who's looking at the ground and moving from side to side, and the cop asks him what he's doing.
This is an unconsolidated ground that is suffused with liquid methane.
I think, if you live with your head in the clouds every now and then, it helps you keep your feet on the ground.
When a tree grows in the forest and gives off oxygen and soaks up carbon dioxide, and it dies and it falls to the forest floor, it gives that carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere or into the ground.
(Frogs croaking) Mono Lake is just to the east of Yosemite National Park in California, and it's a favorite habitat of these toads, and it's also favored by U.S. Navy jet pilots, who train in their fighters flying them at speeds exceeding 1,100 kilometers an hour and altitudes only a couple hundred meters above ground level of the Mono Basin, very fast, very low, and so loud that the anthrophony, the human noise, even though it's six and a half kilometers from the frog pond you just heard a second ago, it masked the sound of the chorusing toads.
He fell to the ground.
But what it does show is that it's sort of gaining ground, it's gaining respectability.
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