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Those missions could be as simple as just a few way points, or they could be slightly longer and more complicated, to fly along a river system.
There are several reasons for this low status of the elderly in the U.S. One is our Protestant work ethic which places high value on work, so older people who are no longer working aren't respected.
Big changes for the better include the fact that today we enjoy much longer lives, much better health in our old age, and much better recreational opportunities.
This included software algorithms to predict what DNA to build, chemistry to link the G, A, T and C building blocks of DNA into short pieces, Gibson Assembly to stitch together those short pieces into much longer ones, and biology to convert the DNA into other biological entities, such as proteins.
Now, mathematicians thought this was very strange because as you shrink a ruler down, you measure a longer and longer length.
It's the same reason that a radiator has long coils, to increase surface area compared to volume to let heat out, and because the leg is like a pendulum, the longer and thinner it is at the extremity, the more energy-efficient it is to swing.
We no longer use punch cards.
And so incidentally, if you want to reduce the amount of smell, clear-cutting your armpits is a very effective way of reducing the habitat for bacteria, and you'll find they remain less smelly for much longer.
These longer folds have slower, larger vibrations, which result in a lower baseline pitch.
And this was designed to let you take your time and figure out where your expressive space is, and you can just hang out here for a while, for a really dramatic effect, if you want, and whenever you're ready — (Music) And on these longer notes, I'm going to use more vibrato towards the end of the notes to give it a little bit more of an expressive quality.
Clock has one arm longer than the other.
What would it mean for her if she were freed from that voice of her inner critic, nagging her to have longer legs, thinner thighs, smaller stomach, shorter feet?
And we got more effort, more strategies, more engagement over longer periods of time, and more perseverance when they hit really, really hard problems.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization in small family groups.
But on the other hand, if those kids are black, they are four times more likely to be removed, they spend longer periods of time in foster care, and it's harder to find them a stable foster placement.
And this reduction in air pollution is actually leading people to live longer lives in China, on average two and a half years more than they would have in 2013.
But after the food goes through the digestive system, when it is thrown out as crap, it is no longer fashionable to speak about it.
DH: And this is a small excerpt from a longer piece.
We also have to examine our current policing practices, and we have to set those things aside that no longer serve us.
Some of it will be in our atmosphere for a century, maybe much longer.
But the thing is that the refugees have stayed for a longer time, and the French government has managed to seal off the borders better, so now The Jungle is growing, along with the despair and hopelessness among the refugees.
Because you have a choice oftentimes, do you I want a shorter life that's pain-free, or a longer life that might have a great deal of pain towards the end?
They led to longer lifespans, the eradication of mass disease, mass housing, almost universal education.
They have been watching us for much longer than we have been watching them.
"That's Beijing" is similar to "Time Out," a magazine that broadcasts what is happening in town during the week, and suddenly you see the building portrayed no longer as physical matter, but actually as an urban actor, as part of a series of personas that define the life of the city.
We just couldn't manage any longer.
Every morning, I asked myself how much longer I could do it.
For example, he thought that because giraffes spent their lives stretching to reach leaves on higher branches, their children would be born with longer necks.
Instead, random genetic mutations cause some giraffes to be born with longer necks, and that gives them a better chance to survive than the ones who weren't so lucky, which brings us to "survival of the fittest".
Red light has lower energy and longer wavelengths.
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