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On a long space journey, you simply wouldn't be able to pick up any carbon along the way, so you'd have to figure out how to recycle it on board.
If you enjoy a glass of pinot noir on a Friday night, after a long, hard work week, then you are enjoying a product of microbes.
They called them improvements, and they were the beginning of a long, slow unraveling.
And if we don't find anything at all, we go to museums to see the seeds or wood of trees existing there a long time ago.
Time stood still for a long while, and all I could think and repeat in the chaos of my brain was: "You can forget about that partnership, Leila.
Correction: I should say "smart enough," because who you marry is your own choice, and you'd better marry someone supportive if you plan to have a long career.
Can you imagine how long it took?
So we have to have these elements in environments for long periods of time for us to be able to be confident that life, in that moment when it starts, can spark and then grow and evolve.
Humans have just been involved in nature in a very influential way for a very long time.
For so long, we dismissed all these novel ecosystems as trash.
I found a long, flowing coat on eBay.
He pasted tarps over the windows of his home to prevent prying eyes during the long Icelandic winter.
After that moment of inspiration, there came a very long time of effort developing a prototype.
Polymers are chains of atoms arranged in long, thin lines.
It turns out, you can get the building blocks, monomers, as they're called, and if you let them go into the brain and then trigger the chemical reactions, you can get them to form those long chains, right there inside the brain tissue.
Because we have a long history of oppression and inequity that we need to work on together.
I figured it would take this long for the trees to suck up the CO2 through photosynthesis, turn it into sugars, send it down into their roots, and maybe, I hypothesized, shuttle that carbon belowground to their neighbors.
Well, it turns out, in the long run, they don't.
We have, for too long, chased various shimmering dreams at the cost of attention to the foundational dream of each other, the dream of tending to each other, of unleashing each other's wonders, of moving through history together.
Actually, it was not a sustainable model in the long term, as those countries are becoming richer.
It was my first day as a physician, with the long white coat ... I stumbled into the hospital and right away there's a gentleman, Harold, 68 years old, came to the emergency department.
Again, because we goofy, long white-coat physicians are trained and of the mantra of dealing with this, not with this.
It was about 2,000 feet off the ground and consisted of the hardest physical moves on the whole route: long pulls between poor handholds with very small, slippery feet.
Your genetic information is strung into a long and twisted molecule, the DNA double helix, that has over three billion letters, beginning to end.
This has been called the "double-spend" problem by cryptographers for a long time.
So he's wearing, like, a long overcoat and sort of an old-man hat, and he looked like somebody from a movie.
Of course, I pushed him for details, and the long answer that came out was essentially "compromise, compromise and more compromise."
The other problem was that Canada's long cold war between its French and its English communities had just become a hot one.
We were artificially constraining how long we had to something, pretty much ensuring a variable outcome, and we took the trouble of inspecting and identifying those gaps, but then we built right on top of it.
For too long, we've pretended that happiness is a king in his castle.
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