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There are several ways to make these beats distinct, whether by using high and low drums, or long and short beats.
The statement is short and direct, calling the child by name and addressing his role in her life.
How did he develop such a deep understanding of this issue in such a short time?
Unfortunately, the ill effects of being seated don't only exist in the short term.
So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10-billion-year lifetime of a planet of Earth type.
Answer in: 3 Answer in: 2 Answer in: 1 At first it might seem like no matter what you do, you're just a minute or two short of time, but there is a way.
In short, it's full of patterns and secrets.
Information first lands in short term memory, where it's available from anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes.
There are a few tricks that can give you an immediate confidence boost in the short term.
In the short term, stress can be advantageous, but when activated too often or too long, your primitive fight or flight stress response not only changes your brain but also damages many of the other organs and cells throughout your body.
When telomeres become too short, a cell can no longer divide and it dies.
If you can view those situations as challenges you can control and master, rather than as threats that are insurmountable, you will perform better in the short run and stay healthy in the long run.
The short answer is that no one wants to watch a starship crew spend years compiling an alien dictionary.
What's the world going to look like in just 35 short years when there's 2.7 billion more of us sharing the same resources?
And why is it that we keep hearing phrases like, "Life's too short for farmed fish," or, "Wild-caught, of course!" over fish that we know virtually nothing about?
The biggest health risk occurs when lots of ionizing radiation hits us in a short time period, also known as an acute exposure.
Over-hydration, or hyponatremia, is usually caused by overconsumption of water in a short amount of time.
Memory based on short glimpses can be unreliable, and we often overestimate our own accuracy.
But what happened next was nothing short of miraculous.
[A good conversation is like a miniskirt; short enough to retain interest, but long enough to cover the subject.
When telomeres become too short, cells stop replicating and die, slowing the body's ability to renew itself.
But the response also kicks in more as we age, halting cell growth and cutting short their ability to replicate.
Some of the most significant are psychological benefits, both in the short and long term.
But in the short term, at least, your body and brain have got you covered, so you can conveniently choose your moment of sweet release.
But we have them, and we pay for them in lives cut short.
When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer.
That's a short chain fatty acid thought to lower risk of colon cancer.
For the microscopic lab worm, C. elegans life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth.
This doubt compels me to renounce the role of savior that some have placed on me, because our time is too short and our odds are too long to wait for second comings, when the truth is that there will be no miracles here.
And when there's deadlines, the effects of procrastination are contained to the short term because the Panic Monster gets involved.
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