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It's less than half a plan, because where does Brazil want to go on social progress?
If I was trying to fit myself into a box, I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't have achieved half the things that I have now.
Folks, we have the opportunity of a lifetime to drop homicidal violence in half within our lifetime.
Why is it that somebody might literally see the glass as half full, and somebody literally sees it as half empty?
The top half of the picture, you see where the Indians live.
Top half Indians, bottom half white guys.
Top half wonder drugs, bottom half just a bunch of skinny-ass cows.
Top half carbon sequestered in the forest where it belongs, bottom half carbon in the atmosphere where it's driving climate change.
And the black cayman — these monsters can tip the scale at over half a ton.
Still today, with all the technology we have, less than half of the world's population has access to the Internet, and more than three billion people — I'm repeating the number — three billion people are consuming news that is censored by those in power.
As a result, we'd had several days of eating half rations.
We had a finite amount of food in the sledges to make this journey, so we were trying to string that out by reducing our intake to half the calories we should have been eating.
But five and a half days in a row, and live, we wanted some help.
This was waving TV for five and a half days, and people get so extremely happy when they can send a warm message to their loved ones.
Well, I went to Rhode Island School of Design in the second half of the '60s to study architecture.
On the one hand, you do have the media, politics and news lobe that tends to exist in Baltimore and other cities, but you also have this very predominant group of geeks and techies that are sort of taking over the top half of the network, and there's even a group that's so distinct and clear that we can identify it as Twitter employees, next to the geeks, in between the gamers and the geeks, at the opposite end of the hip-hop spectrum.
It was so big it looked as if it was going to take up half of the only room we had, and had so many pieces and wires that needed to be connected.
In a year, to a year and a half, Native American students in a school on a reservation went from the bottom of their district to the top, and that district included affluent sections of Seattle.
Wikipedia has used thousands of volunteers to create a free encyclopedia with a million and a half articles in 200 languages in just a couple of years.
This is more than half of what the US has combined in total and China did this in just seven months alone.
But in the last 100 years, we lost half of that.
It's almost like half of Costa Rica every year.
China desperately needs these frugal medical solutions because by 2050 it will be home to over half a billion senior citizens.
Now let's go to Kenya, a country where half the population uses M-Pesa, a mobile payment solution.
Well of course, this guy's not going to think for half an hour, "Should I give my hand?
This is the first time I went after two and a half hours.
She had this amazing box that she carried and it had a torso of a woman's body in it, a half a torso, and she would teach people, everywhere she went, what a healthy vagina looked like and what a mutilated vagina looked like.
And this is what we wanted to show during the World Cup, and couldn't, because for some mysterious reason, FIFA cut its broadcast in half.
That's because this is not a disease of West Africa, it's a disease of Central Africa, half a continent away.
It means that three architects can dream about swimming in the East River of New York, and then raise nearly half a million dollars from a community that gathered around their cause, no one client anymore.
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