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Of the nearly 7,000 satellites launched since the late 1950s, only about one in seven is currently operational, and in addition to the satellites that are no longer working, there's also hundreds of thousands of marble-sized debris and millions of paint chip-sized debris that are also orbiting around the Earth.
The Cooperative Children's Book Center did a review of nearly 4,000 books and found that only three percent were about African-Americans.
And it was late, it was nearly midnight, we'd gotten into an argument over dinner, and when we got back to our room, he threw his things in the bag and stormed out.
Nearly all of his riches are invested in a collection of 30 exquisite Burmese rubies, and the crowd in the square is clamoring for their confiscation to reimburse his victims.
So, after eight years of writing, and nearly 16 years after that dire night, I mustered the courage to propose a wild idea: that we'd meet up in person and face our past once and for all.
But by the time I got there, it was already nearly impossible to find stories about Iraq on air.
We're at this extraordinary point where we're nearly there, that there are machines like that.
It could have killed us off, and maybe it nearly did, but you see, we don't know.
But maybe it nearly did.
Nearly every family in America is affected by addiction.
Even when someone does call for empathy and understanding for the other side, the conversation nearly always devolves into a debate about who deserves more empathy.
We don't do it nearly often enough.
We can use keywords to search that database, and when we do that, we discover nearly a million articles about pregnancy, but far fewer about breast milk and lactation.
That means that nearly 130 million babies are born each year.
When we reach for donor milk in the neonatal intensive care unit, or formula on the store shelf, it's nearly one-size-fits-all.
The accretion disk glows brightly in the x-rays, and huge magnetic fields can launch the material into space at nearly the speed of light.
Every single one of the dots in this image is a distant galaxy, millions to billions of light-years away with a supermassive black hole at its center pushing material into space at nearly the speed of light.
Sadly, nearly 200 of them still remain missing.
This is the size of the brain relative to what we'd expect for an animal's body size, and the elephant's EQ is nearly as high as a chimpanzee's.
Sleep occupies nearly a third of our lives, but many of us give surprisingly little attention and care to it.
Einstein would not become a world famous icon for nearly another fifteen years.
If we were to account for the impact of the Kigali agreement of 2016, which calls for the phaseout of hydrofluorocarbons and replace them with natural refrigerants, which exist today, this number could increase to 120, to nearly 200 gigatons of avoided greenhouse gases.
Our plan would achieve nearly twice the emissions reductions of all Obama-era climate regulations combined, and nearly three times the new baseline after President Trump repeals all of those regulations.
But then ... nearly everyone forgot about it.
At the height of the crisis, when we were told that 1.4 million people could be infected, when we were told that most of them would die, when we had nearly lost all hope, I remember standing with a group of health workers in the rainforest where an outbreak had just happened.
What we also know is that if we trained an army of community health workers to learn even just 30 lifesaving skills, we could save the lives of nearly 30 million people by 2030.
I deleted the game Two Dots and nearly cried.
Since 2005, the number of orphanages in Cambodia has risen by 75 percent, and the number of children living in Cambodian orphanages has nearly doubled, despite the fact that the vast majority of children living in these orphanages are not orphans in the traditional sense.
Even though life is getting objectively better by nearly every conceivable standard, more people feel hopeless, depressed and alone.
On that day, I embodied her existence using my body, while standing in the blazing sun for nearly four hours.
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