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When 23 undocumented Chinese migrants drowned while picking cockles in Morecambe Bay in 2004, there were no calls to outlaw the entire seafood industry to save trafficking victims.

Somewhere in the city, there's a old lady picking Styrofoam leftovers up out of a trash can and she's putting a piece of sesame chicken someone spit out into her own mouth.

And one of my favorite things was picking names.

Every parent in this audience knows the joy and excitement of picking a new baby's name.

But it took me by surprise to learn in an area of Ethiopia, parents delay picking the names for their new babies by a month or more.

It turns out he was picking up some fake bonds, which he was flying across the country to sell.

Who would have imagined that so many daily tasks we do or take for granted, such as going to the beach or even picking up something from the floor, would become sources of stress and anxiety?

Getting back to Mohammed, one of the few jobs he was able to find was picking lemons.

So imagine you're at a party, and you can't believe that your friend or your spouse isn't picking up on it that you want to leave early.

As I turned the corner onto my street, my house in sight up ahead, I heard footsteps behind me that seemed to have approached out of nowhere and were picking up pace.

For the first time it allowed us to look into someone's body without picking up each and every one of the cells and putting them under the microscope, but in a noninvasive way allowing us to look into someone's body and ask, "Hey, has the cancer metastasized?

Whether it's training for a marathon, picking up an old hobby, or learning a new skill, for most people, self-transformation projects occupy a very positive emotional space.

Well, they could just be reflecting our biases, and these systems could be picking up on our biases and amplifying them and showing them back to us, while we're telling ourselves, "We're just doing objective, neutral computation."

So, consider this case: This woman was late picking up her godsister from a school in Broward County, Florida, running down the street with a friend of hers.

And since that time, all the crows in the neighborhood are picking up this behavior.

The Russians are picking up the crumbs.

They start by picking an issue that matters to them and taking a stand on it.

You get a couple hundred kids each picking up five pieces, and pretty soon, you've got a much cleaner camp.

And I would take a sip and I'd say, "I'm picking up coffee.

And so it started breaking up the monotony of the job as well because I was picking and packing all of the boxes, and that's all you basically do for eight, nine, 10, 12 hours a day when you're sitting in the garage.

So, yes, I was the CEO in the garage; I was picking and packing, doing all the work, but then I graduated to actually managing the people who picked and packed, and then pretty soon I managed the people who managed the people picking and packing.

And even now, I manage the C-staff who manage the departments who manage the people who manage the people picking and packing.

Tina: So far, I've been spending between 150 and 200 minutes on my phone per day, and I've been picking up my phone 70 to 100 times per day.

But by trusting the data that's actually picking up on past practices and by choosing the definition of success, how can we expect the algorithms to emerge unscathed?

I was concerned that they were picking up so much polarizing misinformation, and they were growing really fearful of a Trump presidency.

And neighbors, by picking up a paintbrush with other neighbors, would engage not just with their heads but with their hands and with their hearts.

Already, even before picking up a paintbrush, we had accomplished so much of the conversation and connection that we had hoped for.

I decided to take it to its logical conclusion and take everything in the Bible literally, without picking and choosing.

And anyone who follows the Bible is going to be picking and choosing.

You're just picking and choosing."

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