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the calories a brain burns go towards simply keeping the structure intact by pumping sodium and potassium ions across membranes to maintain an electrical charge.
Fosbury improved his record by over
half
a foot, and left his coaches amazed by this strange new style of high jumping.
When scientists first worked this out over the first
half
of the 20th Century, the famous astronomer Harlow Shapley commented, "We are brothers of the boulders, cousins of the clouds."
You can see from the intersection of the blue line and the black dotted line that if San Jose could just capture
half
of the water that fell within the city, they'd have enough water to get them through an entire year.
And the place where we need to think about water conservation is outdoors because in California and other modern American cities, about
half
of our water use happens outdoors.
Compared to the seawater desalination plant that was built in Santa Barbara 25 years ago, this treatment plant will use about
half
the energy to produce a gallon of water.
These peppers measure between 1.5 and 2 million Scoville heat units, which is about
half
the units found in pepper spray.
But when in 2006 such losses were found to affect more than
half
of all hives in the US, the phenomenon got a new name: colony collapse disorder.
People get about
half
of their added sugars from those drinks and treats, so it might seem like sugar is hiding in plain sight, but like someone in the witness protection program, the other
half
is hidden in places you'd least suspect.
BG: Six months after, how do you look back at the first
half
of the year?
Until then, the cat is a blur of probability,
half
one thing and
half
the other.
IW: In our first hour and a
half
there, we got almost 1,000 signatures.
When you have no choice but to sit, try switching the slouch for a straighter spine, and when you don't have to be bound to your seat, aim to move around much more, perhaps by setting a reminder to yourself to get up every
half
hour.
The Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago and was probably too hot for about the first
half
billion years.
So life appeared on Earth within
half
a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10-billion-year lifetime of a planet of Earth type.
But pioneers like Dr. Hayden and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of Special Olympics, persevered, and Special Olympics athletes have proved them right four and a
half
million times over.
I am one of more than four and a
half
million athletes around the globe, and I've heard so many similar stories.
This year, research findings showed that nearly
half
of the adults in the US don't know a single person with an intellectual disability, and the 44 percent of Americans who don't have personal contact with intellectual disabilities are significantly less accepting and positive.
It was tweeted more than nine million times last year, and it is deeply hurtful to me and my four and a
half
million fellow athletes around the planet.
Special Olympics is changing the world by transforming four and a
half
million athletes and giving us a place to be confident, meet friends, not be judged and get to feel like and be champions.
The other
half
reveals that pregnancy places a mother and her child at odds.
WWF recently published a report showing that just in the last 40 years, our global marine life has been slashed in
half.
The Codex Vercellensis is the oldest translation of the Gospels into Latin, and it dates from the first
half
of the fourth century.
Since then, every person has been missing
half
of him or herself.
To evaluate a new drug, for instance,
half
the patients in a trial might receive the real pill.
The other
half
would get a placebo that looked the same.
Today, roughly
half
the world's refugees are children, some of them unaccompanied by an adult, a situation that makes them especially vulnerable to child labor or sexual exploitation.
While more than
half
the world's refugees are in cities, sometimes the first stop for a person fleeing conflict is a refugee camp, usually run by the United Nations Refugee Agency or local governments.
But I still have six and a
half
minutes.
And more than
half
of the increase has been in the last 19 years.
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