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Half of the city's other neighborhoods are now rubble.
Yes, prior to the war, almost half of the Syrian population lived in slums, peripheral areas without proper infrastructure, made of endless rows of bare block boxes containing people, people who mostly belonged to the same group, whether based on religion, class, origin or all of the above.
We have severely destroyed cities, such as Homs, Aleppo, Daraa and many others, and almost half of the population of the country is now displaced.
But here's the problem: say you want to buy a half a ton of nanocellulose to build a boat or an airplane.
If you look at my calendar, you will see every working day one and a half hours from 7pm to 8:30pm UAE time blocked and called "family time."
That is less than half of the life span that its employees can expect to enjoy.
And a couple of years ago at AMD, we came up with this idea of saying, what if we create this initiative we call 50x15, where we are going to aim, that by the year 2015, half of the world will be connected to the Internet so that people and ideas can get connected.
Right now, humans use half of the world to live, to grow their crops and their timber, to pasture their animals.
The first coil could successfully treat only half of the patients in Bolivia.
The other bummer going on here with our status quo is that half of all of your poop and pee is going to fertilize farmland.
The other half is being incinerated or land-filled.
The average wastewater treatment plant can remove maybe half of the drugs that come in.
The other half goes right out the other side.
Each one of us is pooping and peeing something that could fertilize half or maybe all of our food, depending on our diet.
Half the participants got a list with 15 words used to trigger rudeness: impolitely, interrupt, obnoxious, bother.
Half the participants received a list of words with none of these rude triggers.
When my friend Doug Conant took over as CEO of Campbell's Soup Company in 2001, the company's market share had just dropped in half.
Laura was 27 years old, she'd worked for Google for four years and then for a year and a half at Airbnb when I met her.
And so normally when you summit Half Dome, you have a rope and a bunch of climbing gear on you, and tourists gasp and they flock around you for photos.
I was slightly afraid to ask what type of miracles he meant, and he replied nonchalantly, "Coach, let me take the team to the church, and when we return, I guarantee that half of them will be able to see." (Laughter) Some of the guys laughed, but imagine being a blind person and someone says that to you.
People move jobs, on average, every 4.7 years, and it's estimated that by 2020, nearly half of Americans will be freelancers.
Germany sometimes gets half its power from solar, and India is now committed to building 10 times more solar than we have in California, by the year 2022.
When you combine all the electricity from solar and wind, you see it actually barely makes up half of the decline from nuclear.
So much methane gas was released, it was the equivalent of putting half a million cars on the road.
There was a study, a survey done of people around the world, not just in the United States or Europe, about a year and a half ago.
But it's been over a half century since Selma and the Voting Rights Act, and in the decades since, this face-to-face culture of voting has just about disappeared.
If you're a low-income kid, almost half of you face multiple instances of childhood trauma.
But if we look at the end of the 1990s, just half a decade later, we see that in Ecuador they started having a resistance problem.
We are on a tiny scrap of rock off Europe which contains less than one percent of the world's adults, and less than half a percent of the world's children.
If only half the stories about him are half true, there's no question he's one of the smartest people who has ever lived.
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