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In essence, what we've done is we've studied the science, we've looked at the behavior, we've seen over 2,000 kills by these amazing animals.
A new male comes into the area and takes over the pride, and, of course, first of all kills all the cubs and possibly some of the females that are defending their cubs.
I want to write about a tornado that comes into our house and blows all the windows out, and ruins all the furniture and kills everybody."
Not only would it have been burned in engines and added to global warming, but there's a place called "Cancer Alley," and the reason it's called "Cancer Alley" is because the petrochemical industry takes that oil and turns it into plastic and in the process, kills people.
The recycling of plastic in many developing countries means the incineration of the plastic, the burning of the plastic, which releases incredible toxic chemicals and, once again, kills people.
Knowing somebody's your kin typically kills the libido.
Whether the Egyptians and Tunisians will make it through the transition, or this will end in bloody ethnic and religious conflicts, whether the Syrians will maintain nonviolent discipline, faced with a brutal daily violence which kills thousands already, or they will slip into violent struggle and make ugly civil war.
You need to know, in this kind of war, husbands kills wives, wives kill husbands, neighbors and friends kill each other.
Heart disease kills more women at all ages than breast cancer.
Heart disease kills people, often very quickly.
Breast cancer, as we said, kills women, but heart disease kills a whole bunch more.
So AIDS is a sexually transmitted infection, and it kills you.
So malaria is a disease that kills you.
It's a disease that kills a lot of adults in Africa, in addition to a lot of children.
It kills people in the prime of their lives.
Yes, smoking kills, but mostly it kills the other guy.
And I always say to the students and post-docs I lecture to, don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity.
The next day, Tom opens his lunchbox, there's rice, so he throws himself off and kills himself, and Tom, Dick and Harry follow.
Our research covered the biology of the system, which included studying the way algae grew, but also what eats the algae, and what kills the algae.
Is it something that kills us?
Maybe I had better shoot him, before he shoots me, especially since, even if he doesn't want to kill me, he's probably worrying right now that I might kill him before he kills me."
It kills me.
Now, if it does not decay biologically, it shifts to oxidation, which is a very slow process, and this smothers and kills grasses, leading to a shift to woody vegetation and bare soil, releasing carbon.
So he jumps in and kills the animals.
Diarrhea is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, and you've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together.
Yet when it came to a disease like diabetes that kills Americans eight times more frequently than melanoma, I never once questioned the conventional wisdom.
It kills off bacteria and molds and other germs within the colony, and so it bolsters the colony health and their social immunity.
Yes? Heike Moses: Hello everyone, I'm Heike, and I think it just kills the intrinsic motivation, so in the respect that children, if they would like to read, you just take this incentive away in just paying them, so it just changes behavior.
And it was a bit awkward and uncomfortable and it totally kills the vibe.
This Syrian young man survived one of these boats that capsized — most of the people drowned — and he told us, "Syrians are just looking for a quiet place where nobody hurts you, where nobody humiliates you, and where nobody kills you."
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