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When cracks finally appear and water trickles into the concrete, the spores germinate, grow, and consume the nutrient soup that surrounds them, modifying their local environment to create the perfect conditions for calcium carbonate to grow.
Through inspired local leadership, they launched a nonviolent resistance campaign to stop that from happening.
Well, I was one of them, and it's your local friendly Stanford football team.
Imagine if we had, across the country right now, in local places but nationwide, a concerted effort to revive a face-to-face set of ways to engage and electioneer: outdoor shows in which candidates and their causes are mocked and praised in broad satirical style; soapbox speeches by citizens; public debates held inside pubs; streets filled with political art and handmade posters and murals; battle of the band concerts in which competing performers rep their candidates.
Because remember, all citizenship is local.
And in your average local election, turnout hovers somewhere around 20 percent.
But I didn't take that deal, because I went and took it to my officer who told me, "Stop being an idiot, go to the local credit union, and get a better deal."
They brought the produce to local markets, and came home with the equivalent of money.
Most of us don't really know the difference, do we, between a sheriff and local police and the FBI.
Because a raid at your workplace, a chance encounter with local police could change the course of your life forever.
They matter in local and state elections.
There are over 500,000 local and state offices in America.
I got back to my local station and I began the 10-minute walk home.
At the time of writing this letter, I was studying for my exams in Oxford, and I was working on the local student paper there.
Well, it turns out that trust has only evolved in three significant chapters throughout the course of human history: local, institutional and what we're now entering, distributed.
Trust was mostly local and accountability-based.
People moved to fast-growing cities such as London and San Francisco, and a local banker here was replaced by large corporations that didn't know us as individuals.
William went on to finish high school, get his security guard certificate to become a security guard, and is now working at a local school district.
He was at the top of his dental school class, and alongside Yusor and Razan, was involved in local and international community service projects dedicated to the homeless and refugees, including a dental relief trip they were planning for Syrian refugees in Turkey.
Razan, at just 19, used her creativity as an architectural engineering student to serve those around her, making care packages for the local homeless, among other projects.
I cannot let my family's deaths be diminished to a segment that is barely discussed on local news.
I ask him what he thinks we should do, given the bombardment of local media interview requests.
He offers to set up a press conference at a local community center.
And in Vietnam, there's a program where we are pairing young entrepreneurs with the needs in their own local communities.
We need ideas, we need ideas that are big and small, ideas that are local and global.
I actually read about Emma's story from the pages of a legal opinion written by a judge who had dismissed Emma's claim of race and gender discrimination against a local car manufacturing plant.
But with lots of intelligent people focusing on whether food is organic or local, or whether we're being nice to animals, the most important issues just aren't being addressed.
There were neighborhood restaurants run by local people, but none of them would think to open another one.
And again, everyone ate local.
By the '70s, forward-thinking people began to recognize the value of local ingredients.
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