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They're going to be there for an awfully long time.
And whoever tells you that they have nothing to hide simply hasn't thought about this long enough.
We had also not required developers to build sidewalks on new developments for a long, long time.
Granted, we have a long way to go.
Whereas the female lions hunt out in the open savanna over long distances, usually during the day, male lions use an ambush strategy in dense vegetation, and often at night.
Now working memory capacity has a fairly long history, and it's associated with a lot of positive effects.
Now, many of you may have noticed there's a problem at this point, and that is that it takes a long time to measure whether those outcomes have happened.
And again, in Peterborough, we started off with a program, but we also collected data, and over the period of time, we nuanced and changed that program to add a range of other elements, so that the service adapts and we meet the needs of the long term as well as the short term: greater engagement from the prisoners, longer-term engagement as well.
We have a global health challenge in our hands today, and that is that the way we currently discover and develop new drugs is too costly, takes far too long, and it fails more often than it succeeds.
The real potential, the long term potential, is with this community of DIY ocean explorers that are forming all over the globe.
He and I have both been exploring caves a long time and we've been climbing mountains a long time, but neither one of us had ever really explored a glacier cave before.
This reason really is that I am a man who, almost 30 years ago, had his life saved by two long courses of electroshock therapy.
Nelson Mandela has come to the end of his long walk to freedom.
Now for as long as I can remember, my job has been to take people out into nature, and so I think it's a lovely twist of fate today to have the opportunity to bring some of my experiences out in nature in to this gathering.
And you needn't worry how long the book is, or whether it's a comic strip or an epic.
As shown in this artist's impression, 'Oumuamua is apparently very long and narrow, with an axis ratio of about 10 to one.
So while it is rotating around its short axis, it's also rolling around the long axis and nodding up and down.
Yes, we do actually have the technology, but it would be a long and expensive voyage, and we would get there so far from the Sun that the final approach trajectory would be very difficult.
In the U.S. alone, the industrial Internet could raise average income by 25 to 40 percent over the next 15 years, boosting growth to rates we haven't seen in a long time, and adding between 10 and 15 trillion dollars to global GDP.
And what I came up with over time was that the people who deny their experience, and say, "I was depressed a long time ago, I never want to think about it again, I'm not going to look at it and I'm just going to get on with my life," ironically, those are the people who are most enslaved by what they have.
It was 15 more hours, which for most swimmers would be a long time.
In one study, we had people watch a brief video, just 46 seconds long, about childhood poverty that served as a reminder of the needs of others in the world around them.
But a more interesting way, the current way to take the long view, is to look at it in an evolutionary perspective.
Even after you've kept the weight off for as long as seven years, your brain keeps trying to make you gain it back.
If that weight loss had been due to a long famine, that would be a sensible response.
If you stay at a high weight for too long, probably a matter of years for most of us, your brain may decide that that's the new normal.
If you think about this, the typical outcome of dieting is that you're more likely to gain weight in the long run than to lose it.
It takes a long time.
And we had a long list.
This was an experience that stayed with us for a long time, and years later, my brother and I moved back to Washington, D.C., and we started to ask the question, would it be possible, in the same way that The Gates responded to the physical layout of the park, to compose music for a landscape?
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