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This was first really tested when Galileo got his hands on one of the first telescopes, and as he gazed into the night sky, what he found there was a planet, Jupiter, with four moons circling around it.
So it's really important that you know that right now we have over 15,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of nine nations.
Now, before I go on, some of you may hold up your hands and say, "Stop, Paul, wait a minute.
And they fall at the hands of matchers.
Because they didn't want a divorced daughter on their hands because, of course, that would bring dishonor on the family.
So, the whole activity of working with my hands and creating objects is very much connected with not only the idea realm, but also with very much the feeling realm.
I was also very interested in perhaps going into surgery and becoming a surgeon, because it meant working with my hands in a very focused, intense way.
So, I started taking art courses, and I found a way to make sculpture that brought together my love for being very precise with my hands, with coming up with different kinds of logical flows of energy through a system.
Bryn Freedman: So you said that in the 20th century, global power was in the hands of government.
He told me to stop, take my backpack off and put my hands on the police car parked next to us.
And sometimes that was just paused, as all I could do was hold hands with them and just join them in silent crying and prayer.
This is a big departure from the traditional medical model, because it places responsibility and information back in the woman's hands.
Matter of fact, if we lived in the screen world, we would have a population crisis on our hands.
Andrew Solomon: You've talked a lot about the global versus the national, but increasingly, it seems to me, the world situation is in the hands of identity groups.
Keep your hands held up at the back if you want the mic, and we'll get it back to you.
It fits arthritic hands.
It fits children's hands.
The first thing you learn is the overwhelming importance of hands.
In our team, we've estimated that you have more than 10 billion phages on each of your hands.
What if I told you there was a new technology that, when placed in the hands of doctors and nurses, improved outcomes for children and adults, patients of all ages; reduced pain and suffering, reduced time in the operating rooms, reduced anesthetic times, had the ultimate dose-response curve that the more you did it, the better it benefitted patients?
And so we played, and about a minute later, the girl next to him, in a white shirt and a pink skirt, stood up, put her hands on her hips, and said, "Yeah, why do you look so different?"
If you're like me and you believe in forwards and outwards, and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, and the best thing about globalization is the way that it stirs up that diversity, that cultural mixture to make something more creative, more exciting, more productive than there's ever been before in human history, then, my friends, we've got a job on our hands, because the inwards and backwards brigade are uniting as never before, and that creed of inwards and backwards, that fear, that anxiety, playing on the simplest instincts, is sweeping across the world.
But can you do that while keeping your hands on the wheel?
So they, right there, you know, they took me out the door, they put my hands against the car.
Guards get prisoners to clean the toilet bowls out with their bare hands, to do other humiliating tasks.
Do I talk about the elderly, our heroes, too weak to run, too expensive to shoot, how they would march them, hands raised, rifles at their backs, into the fire?
And I read her everything that I could, and we laughed, and we loved it, and it was the most important stage that I've ever stood on, surrounded by family, by remnants of a people who were given as a dowry to a relentless war but still managed to make pearls of this life; by the ones who taught me to not only laugh, but to live in the face of death; who placed their hands across the sky, measuring the distance to the sun and saying, "Smile; I'm gonna meet you there."
When they pray for the dead, they make these gestures with their hands, spinning their thoughts into the heavens.
Finally, when I got my hands on one, I was in shock again.
She had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for the last 20 years, her hands were gnarled by arthritis, her spine was crooked, she had to rely on a wheelchair to get around.
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