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So there's been a long and sordid history of bringing color underwater, and it starts 88 years ago with Bill Longley and Charles Martin, who were trying to take the first underwater color photograph.
Perhaps they're using this as a way to see each other, quickly find each other, mate, go back into their hole for the next long stint of time.
They would blend right into the algae, which would also fluoresce red, but they've got great vision, and they go through this long mating ritual, and perhaps they're using it in that effect.
Churches used tapestries not just to keep out cold during long masses, but as a way to represent the great theater of life.
In all of these ways, the Atlantic slave trade was an injustice on a massive scale whose impact has continued long after its abolition.
Consider Abigail, a 10-year-old with long QT syndrome, a serious heart condition that, if left untreated, can result in sudden death.
During that time, Abigail died of undiagnosed long QT.
Turns out that the Supreme Court has made clear through a long line of cases, that certain things are not patent eligible.
Usually these questions take the form of a super-long paragraph, like a whole page long with lots and lots of clauses, "wherein this" and "therefore that."
And the future is in the breeze, alerting them to something or someone approaching long before you see them.
Archeological evidence shows that it's been that way for as long as 500,000 years, with about 10% of human remains showing the associated differences in arm length and bone density, and some ancient tools and artifacts showing evidence of left-hand use.
Your spine is a long structure made of bones and the cartilage discs that sit between them.
Sitting for long periods also temporarily deactivates lipoprotein lipase, a special enzyme in the walls of blood capillaries that breaks down fats in the blood, so when you sit, you're not burning fat nearly as well as when you move around.
Recent studies have found that sitting for long periods is linked with some types of cancers and heart disease and can contribute to diabetes, kidney and liver problems.
In 1843, Lady Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician considered the world's first computer programmer, wrote that a machine could not have human-like intelligence as long as it only did what humans intentionally programmed it to do.
Variation two: William begins to doubt his skills in the long hours before the challenge and his hand develops a tremor.
First, scientists dissolve boiled egg whites in water with a chemical called urea, a small molecule that acts as a lubricant, coating the proteins' long strands and making it easier for them to glide past each other.
The space between the two bones is filled with a viscous liquid, synovial fluid, which contains long, lubricating molecules, like hyaluronic acid and lubricin.
After thinking long and hard, you tell the crowd, "At least one of you has green eyes."
But imagine they appeared in a long list of other sentences, all of the same length, each separated by periods.
However, to the extent that we can actually solve the economic growth challenge, it will take us a long way to solving the challenges that I've just elucidated.
And to the extent that we need to create economic growth over the long term, we're going to have to pursue it with a better form of economic stance.
BG: So you're basically pleading for rehabilitating growth, but the only way for that happen without compromising the capacity of the earth, to take us on a long journey, is for economic growth somehow to decouple from the underlying use of resources.
How many are burned by 100 jumping jacks, or long distance running, or fidgeting?
Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward.
In fact, being stationary for long periods with good posture can be worse than regular movement with bad posture.
Long periods of stress can release signals that shock follicles and force them into the resting phase prematurely.
A 13,000 mile dragon of earth and stone winds its way through the countryside of China with a history almost as long and serpentine as the structure.
This process, called long term potentiation, is considered to be a mechanism by which memories are stored long-term, but how do some memories get lost?
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