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And so high expectations, very important.
And then finally, if you've got the community and you've got the high expectations and you've got researchers producing researchers, you have to have people who are willing as faculty to get involved with those students, even in the classroom.
It is the result of high intention, sincere effort and intelligent execution.
Herschel helped by making tidal observations off the coast of South Africa, and, as he complained to Whewell, he was knocked off the docks during a violent high tide for his trouble.
But what really drives these numbers, this high morbidity, and to some extent the high mortality, is the fact that these start very early in life.
Today, productivity is at an all-time high, and despite the Great Recession, it grew faster in the 2000s than it did in the 1990s, the roaring 1990s, and that was faster than the '70s or '80s.
Productivity is at an all time high, but fewer people now have jobs.
(Singing in a low pitch) (Singing in a middle pitch) (Singing in a high pitch) (Singing in a low pitch) (Singing in a middle pitch) (Singing in a high pitch) (Laughter) Poppy Crum: It turns out, some spiders tune their webs like violins to resonate with certain sounds.
But they're connected to a device in the back that lets us measure, in real time, with high precision, the continuous differential concentration of CO2.
Imagine a high school counselor being able to realize that an outwardly cheery student really was having a deeply hard time, where reaching out can make a crucial, positive difference.
In a nuclear power plant, you have a big pot of water that's under high pressure, and you have some fuel rods, and these fuel rods are encased in zirconium, and they're little pellets of uranium dioxide fuel, and a fission reaction is controlled and maintained at a proper level, and that reaction heats up water, the water turns to steam, steam turns the turbine, and you produce electricity from it.
One, it doesn't operate at high pressure.
So traditional reactors like a pressurized water reactor or boiling water reactor, they're very, very hot water at very high pressures, and this means, essentially, in the event of an accident, if you had any kind of breach of this stainless steel pressure vessel, the coolant would leave the core.
Also, they operate at high temperatures, and the fuel is molten, so they can't melt down, but in the event that the reactor ever went out of tolerances, or you lost off-site power in the case of something like Fukushima, there's a dump tank.
The high stakes is today, because you can do something about it.
John Legend: So what is the high school dropout rate at Harlem Children's Zone?
Geoffrey Canada: Well, you know, John, 100 percent of our kids graduated high school last year in my school.
This year's seniors will have 100 percent graduating high school.
JL: So how do you stick with them after they leave high school?
I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate.
She worked at the local high school as a secretary in the dean's office, so she got to see all the kids that got thrown out of class, for whatever reason, who were waiting to be disciplined.
And unfortunately, the local junior high was not going to offer that.
There were some people who were really gang-affiliated, and then there were those of us really trying to make it to high school.
But then, they were very surprised when I graduated from high school.
They are growing because they have high levels of skills.
My high school is Chicago, diverse and segregated on purpose.
In some parts of the country, 60 percent of kids drop out of high school.
The second is that they attribute a very high status to the teaching profession.
I am a high school English teacher at Johnston High School in Johnston, Iowa.
And here, if we look at a detail of the way that the building opens up and breathes into those atria, the way in which now, with a computer, we can model the forces, we can see the high pressure, the low pressure, the way in which the building behaves rather like an aircraft wing.
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