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And so, poor people who are making these products in petrochemical centers like Cancer Alley, poor people who are consuming these products disproportionately, and then poor people who, even at the tail end of the recycling, are having their lives shortened.
It shifted the Earth's tectonic plates, sped up the planet's rotation and literally shortened the length of the day.
Its title: "1.26" refers to the number of microseconds that the Earth's day was shortened.
And this gap has become shorter, shorter, and even shorter, and now this gap is shortened down to less than a millimeter, the thickness of a touch-screen glass, and the power of computing has become accessible to everyone.
I mean, another way to think about this is, which would you rather have, a kid with obesity, diabetes, shortened lifespan, all the things that go with it, or a kid with one little extra bit of false memory?
Multiple infections, nerve pain, spasms, shortened life spans are common.
I accept that I, and other wheelchair users, can and do live fulfilling lives, despite the nerve pain and the spasms and the infections and the shortened life spans.
Twelve years: the length by which life expectancy is shortened for gay, lesbian and bisexual people in highly anti-gay communities compared to accepting communities.
That's because it has even been associated with shortened telomeres, the shoelace tip ends of chromosomes that measure a cell's age.
Shortened life span according to zip code is just one example of the ways that time and space cohere in an unjust manner in the lives of black people.
Crystal was worth it, and shouldn't every child whose life is shortened by a horrific illness be worth it?
Every time the cell divides and the DNA is copied, some of that DNA from the ends gets worn down and shortened, some of that telomere DNA.
And now that I have shortened the distance between those two, let's get back to our game, to our mission.
I can't understand why even the name of Nefernefernefer had to be shortened to just Nefer.
I think all these flat moments could have been shortened to make a 30 minute movie--I certainly wouldn't have minded.
Still, what is never mentioned is that everything is shortened and the events of the plot are very rushed.
At least, the shortened 150 minute version does.
Its evident the film was cut up and shortened because its sometimes lacks transition.
This movie could be easily shortened to under 45 minutes.
I take it that the version I saw was a shortened version (15 min.)
It is true that the movie suffered in the transfer to DVD - some scenes which were complete in the original were shortened and so badly edited that there are striking continuity gaps and that even one crucial scene between Jane and Rochester starts in the middle of a sentence!
Realizing this is simply a shortened made-for-TV film and that most people had trashed it, I didn't expect much, but you can't help but compare this with the '44 film.
This film is available from David Shepard and Kino on the Before Hollywood There Was Fort Lee, NJ, although that is a shortened version with just the "behind-the-scenes movie sections.
All of Fred and Ginger's movies had sub plots that depended on other actors to fill in the space between the musical numbers, otherwise the movie would have to be shortened by about a half hour.
Through the movie you are shown how the actors illegally shortened shot guns, made pipe bombs and came up with an action plan for "Zero Day".
Preity's cabaret number, Diwani Diwani (Crazy), could've been shortened while No. 1 Punjabi came across boring though it had good dancing.
In this series which was prematurely shortened, she and William Gaunt plays parents and grandparents who must raise their three orphaned grandchildren after their son and daughter-in-law have died in a car accident.
I just found that there were too many scenes that needed to be shortened and get to the point.
Although shortened, I thought that the editing was reasonable.
A must for all the Artie Shaw and Swing Era fans, although the jazz sequences - except TRAFFIC JAM - are unreasonably shortened.
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