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You normally have to use satellites and it takes a long time to launch them.
The parasite holds up in a dormant state for a long period of time.
So this is something we've studied for a long time.
There's a long tradition in Asian culture that celebrates the fluid mystery of gender.
She convinced me that if I joined that she would take care of the registration fee and the garments, and that night, I won best in swimsuit and best in long gown and placed second runner up among 40-plus candidates.
I'm here at this stage because it's a long history of people who fought and stood up for injustice.
But if you keep looking further and further, eventually you see nothing for a long while, and then finally you see a faint, fading afterglow, and it's the afterglow of the Big Bang.
We go from 20 million not long after I was born to now we're down to about six million.
Is anything, the story of what's gone right there is quite a long and complex one.
I guess there's a long version and a short version of that.
And you know what, it might mean more money for the city, but a city has to take the long view, the view for the common good.
So they didn't know how long Gabby would be in a coma, didn't know when that would change and what the prognosis would be.
It will be a long, hard haul, but I'm optimistic.
MK: Yeah, we were friends for a long time.
It's been a long, hard haul, but I'm getting better.
Gibson Assembly is now the gold standard tool, used in laboratories around the world for building short and long pieces of DNA.
He said, "Well, if I lived in the jungle, I would only use the long rows of straw because they're very quick and they're very cheap.
My point is that I'm writing another one now, and I'll write another book after that and another and another and another and many of them will fail, and some of them might succeed, but I will always be safe from the random hurricanes of outcome as long as I never forget where I rightfully live.
You just do that, and keep doing that again and again and again, and I can absolutely promise you, from long personal experience in every direction, I can assure you that it's all going to be okay.
All of these new technologies just offer tremendous opportunities for us to be able to impact the individuals with autism, but yet we have a long way to go.
In swimming, the ideal body type is a long torso and short legs.
It's like the long hull of a canoe for speed over the water.
You want long legs and a short torso.
And they happen, on average, to have a certain unique physiology: legs that are very long and very thin at their extremity, and this is because they have their ancestry at very low latitude in a very hot and dry climate, and an evolutionary adaptation to that is limbs that are very long and very thin at the extremity for cooling purposes.
Ultra-endurance was once thought to be harmful to human health, but now we realize that we have all these traits that are perfect for ultra-endurance: no body fur and a glut of sweat glands that keep us cool while running; narrow waists and long legs compared to our frames; large surface area of joints for shock absorption.
That's a really long time to make ends meet if you are broke.
It's not enough to just live a long time.
That's a long story filled with intrigue and interfaith guilt and shame.
There is shock, followed by a long silence.
So that's what we did, and long story short, we were booed off the stage, and if you ever have a chance to live your life escaping hearing the sound of an auditorium full of second- and third-graders booing, I would highly recommend it.
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