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And actually, by the end of the day, I had a reasonable skull, a moderately good vertebrae and half of a pelvis.
There you can see, it's weighing in at 27 and a half pounds.
That's half the weight of my dog, Huxley.
In Nigeria, for example, the country had more than 110 million people but fewer than half a million phones in the whole nation.
Currently, we can accurately scan a living human brain with resolutions of about half a millimeter using our best non-invasive scanning method, MRI.
Like many endangered species, fishing cats are threatened by habitat loss, mainly because of our international demand for farmed fish and shrimp, and the deforestation of nearly half the historic mangrove cover in South and Southeast Asia.
It's about three miles out of Nairobi, and it's a mile long and about two-tenths of a mile wide, where over half a million people live crammed in these little tin shacks, generation after generation, renting them, often eight or 10 people to a room.
The sad consequence was that about a million people died, and one and a half million Irish had to emigrate.
Turns out this occurs within the first already 100 milliseconds, that's about half a second before we even become aware of it.
In fact, they tasted so similar that half my participants could only barely tell the taste apart, while the other half simply couldn't.
I took a stand, paid half a grand!
So what I've been discussing is, the seven and a half billion people in the world don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic.
Quarter of a cent, half a cent.
Seven and a half billion of us.
And you know, one of them was a starting player for a season and a half.
And, very surprisingly, over half of them had, actually, something to do with design.
My grandmother is washing my mouth out with soap; half a long century gone and still she comes at me with that thick cruel yellow bar.
And now today, just a half a century later, Detroit is the poster child for urban decay.
Almost half of the patients who are prescribed high blood pressure pills stop taking them within a year.
We can save half the oil by using it more efficiently, at a cost of 12 dollars per saved barrel.
And then we can replace the other half with a combination of advanced bio-fuels and safe natural gas.
Now, in order to do this we need to invest about 180 billion dollars: half of it to retool the car, truck and plane industries; half of it to build the advanced bio-fuel industry.
But then the next generation of planes saves about half.
There is a huge amount of gas to be saved, about half the projected gas at about an eighth of its price.
Maybe you ought to buy efficiency at 26 bucks instead of 12. Or wait to capture the second half of it.
It turns out that if, say, African-American and white households had the same car ownership, it would cut employment disparity about in half by providing better access to job opportunities.
And that's where about half of our drugs come.
They are breaking even, and what is also amazing is that the sales revenue per store is three to four times higher than the traditional grocery store, and half of the revenue orders are coming from mobile.
I started pool-swimming when I was two and a half, and open water swimming when I was 14 years old.
While crossing the English Channel, after already having swam for 10 hours, when I got stuck in one place for one and a half hour because of the currents, I saw the strong and dedicated athlete in me, who did not want to disappoint her parents or her country.
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