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You go down to your local rent-a-truck and for 50 bucks or so, you rent a truck that's got the right capacity, and you take your bomb, you put it in the truck and you're ready to go.
So there were other rumors about some corruption in the local water district.
The robot has local intelligence: it can flip itself over, can get itself into communication range, can go upstairs by itself, et cetera.
Okay, so it's doing local navigation there.
We teach local vendors and technicians to sell, install and provide customer services for people.
From fixing potholes and putting up stop signs, to promoting a friendly culture of cooperation, Milk envisioned a more personal approach to local government.
Yet he tirelessly continued to support his district, befriending bartenders, construction unions, and local Chinese grocers.
And it was while volunteering at a local YMCA shelter that my cousin Hassen and other relatives were sent to that we saw and learned to appreciate how much effort and coordination resettlement requires.
This is happening in your local cities too, you're probably just not aware of it.
They understand that the local and the global have really, truly come together, that we live in a global, local world, and we need to adjust our politics accordingly.
At the confluence of three great mountain ranges, the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush, some local cultures have believed for centuries that glaciers are alive.
Local Glacier Growers ‘breed’ new glaciers by grafting together—or marrying— fragments of ice from male and female glaciers, then covering them with charcoal, wheat husks, cloths, or willow branches so they can reproduce.
As local glaciers shrink because of climate change, regional water scarcity is increasing.
And so, local people have started growing their own glaciers as insurance against this uncertainty.
Local people make vertical glaciers using the meltwater from already-existing glaciers high above their villages.
So we started to reach out to local groups, community agencies, and even the Ohio State University.
And so, while I wait for the day when a sustainable food system becomes a reality in China, I launched one of China's first online farmers market to bring local, organically grown produce to families.
I told our very anxious employees that we would not give up until we've met every local farmer in China.
Today, we supply 240 types of produce from 57 local farmers.
Even more importantly, 100 percent of the teams we hire at these distribution centers are local.
We have a thousand beehives as little data points across the country, 18 states and counting, where we have created paying jobs for local beekeepers, 65 of them, to manage beehives in their own communities, to connect with people, everyday people, who are now data points together making a difference.
So working together with my state and local partners, we crafted a plan to meet everyone's needs: the system, the inmates and probationers, my graduate students.
And they would collect small gold tokens to fundraise for the local mosque.
When I met Troy a few years ago, he had been employed as a golf caddy at a local country club, carrying bags for rich men and women who often never even acknowledged his existence.
Until one day, running in the streets with a friend, it hit me: the same cars, factories, power plants whose emissions are wrecking our climate over time also release harmful, local pollutants that threaten our health right here and right now.
And, you know, if you think about this with the tsunami, what you have is essentially a kind of an army of local journalists, who are producing enormous amounts of material for no reason other than to tell their stories.
But Evan's parents never would have guessed that when he grew up, he would open up the doors of a local restaurant and invite this community inside to enjoy three-course dinners.
Each night, a local business sponsors the dinner and sends a team of volunteers who help make and serve the meal.
Spread by a parasite found in local mosquitoes, malaria uses red blood cells as incubators to spread quickly and lethally through the bloodstream.
Some local governments in Japan have offered couples money to have babies, with the money increasing with each additional child being born.
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