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And then I got some really dangerous stuff: syringes full of radioactive carbon-14 carbon dioxide gas and some high pressure bottles of the stable isotope carbon-13 carbon dioxide gas.

To ward off pressure from special interests, he kept their meetings small and secret, and many of the participants later told me that it was this intimacy, plus a lot of shared tequila, that helped build confidence.

Having had to navigate being in the less powerful position in multiple aspects of their lives, women are often more adept at how to surreptitiously pressure for change against large, powerful actors.

It's a lot of pressure, trying to be that perfect family behind that white picket fence.

You've got a lot of pressure favoring antibiotic resistance, so you get increased virulence leading to the evolution of increased antibiotic resistance.

At every heartbeat, a higher blood pressure literally compacts millions of red blood cells into massive trains of oxygen that quickly flow throughout our body.

There had been no market or stakeholder pressure, and employees were so surprised that they burst into tears when they heard the news.

And pressure gradients create surface wind, which moves the moisture through the atmosphere.

At those levels of gravitational pressure, blood is sent flying from your brain to your feet, leading to light-headedness or blackouts as the brain struggles to stay conscious.

Coaster engineers play these competing forces against each other, to relieve periods of intense pressure with periods of no pressure at all.

So what it's going to take is some pressure.

It's going to take some pressure on conscious investors to, in turn, put some pressure on management to make changes that will improve the environment and society.

Stress during pregnancy is linked with things like high blood pressure and low infant birth weight, and it can begin a cascade of health challenges that make birth much more dangerous for both parent and child.

During one visit I observed, Trina chatted with a young soon-to-be mom while she took her blood pressure.

As Trina deflated the blood pressure cuff, she said, "We'll see about changing your prescription, OK?

The first one is to do with the pressure of population.

Such is the pressure of population around the world that agriculture and farming is required to produce more and more crops.

For example, last year, a CEO of a company that acts as a gatekeeper for nine million websites decided, after some public pressure, that one of the sites it manages, a far right page, should be blocked.

So the US cannot solve it by itself, and very quickly, the pressure on the US to do the same will be immense because we are talking about high-risk, high-gain technologies.

But the feeling just kept getting worse, and I started to feel this pressure in my chest, sort of like the feeling when you get bad news.

Yet, Debby Herbenick, a researcher at Indiana University, believes that girls' genital self-image is under siege, with more pressure than ever to see them as unacceptable in their natural state.

Her heart rate is going up, her blood pressure is going down, she's breathing very, very fast.

All of a sudden, the brain is no longer under pressure, can re-expand and we cure the child through a single-hole incision.

So they're going to put pressure on these soldiers, military police, to cross the line, give them permission to break the will of the enemy, to prepare them for interrogation, to soften them up, to take the gloves off.

Research has found that higher levels of discrimination are associated with an elevated risk of a broad range of diseases from blood pressure to abdominal obesity to breast cancer to heart disease and even premature mortality.

For example, a study of black teens found that those who reported higher levels of discrimination as teenagers had higher levels of stress hormones, of blood pressure and of weight at age 20.

Now, of course because of that historical advantage, it is mostly men who will have more today, but if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of having to prove this masculinity.

I know young women who are under so much pressure from family, from friends, even from work to get married, and they're pushed to make terrible choices.

We put the government under pressure.

And institutions are going to come under an increasing degree of pressure, and the more rigidly managed, and the more they rely on information monopolies, the greater the pressure is going to be.

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