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Far away in the American Midwest, I had the good fortune of meeting Somali-Americans who were working to counter the efforts of al Shabaab to recruit a small number of young people from their city of Minneapolis to take part in atrocities like Westgate.
This is at complete odds with how Abdirizak Bihi understands what he is trying to do by exposing al Shabaab recruitment, which is to save the religion I love from a small number of extremists.
This will change dramatically with small, bright, thin, high-resolution displays.
The first time I saw that I was watching a type of surgery called laparoscopic surgery And for those of you who are unfamiliar, laparoscopic surgery, instead of the large open incision you might be used to with surgery, a laparoscopic surgery is where the surgeon creates these three or more small incisions in the patient.
On the same line, I ended up in a very small village, fell in love with a young, handsome, dynamic young farmer-leader who was not very educated, but he could pull the crowd.
And so in the passion of youth, I married him and left Mumbai, and went to a small village which did not have running water and no toilet.
He said Kantabai's amount is too small and it's not worth his time.
They are pushing me to set up the first small finance women's bank in the world.
Have you ever made a small, weird sound when you remembered something embarrassing?
When our students are accepted, they are placed in a small classroom of 20 to 30 students, to ensure that those who need personalized attention get it.
These processes are too small to be seen directly, even with the best microscopes, so animations like this provide a really powerful way of visualizing a hypothesis.
The one which was tapping phone calls was completely separated from the one which controlled the letters, for good reasons, because if one agent quit the Stasi, his knowledge was very small.
Washington state is generating small business jobs at a higher rate than any other major state in the nation.
When we lock someone up, that is no small thing.
And just in case you wondered, they shared one toilet in those small confines.
Even in prison, it's no small thing to lock someone up.
Out of those conversations grew some new ideas and we started some small experiments.
That small detail changed the way we worked.
It's no small thing to change a prison system.
These were small changes, and these changes created new possibilities.
So next, I got reassigned as superintendent of a small prison.
She looked at my small prison and what she saw was a laboratory.
This initiative has led to many projects that have had huge system-wide impact, not just in our system, but in other state systems as well, small experiments making a big difference to science, to the community.
Our strategy is hundreds of small changes that take place in days or months, not years.
We need more small pilots where we learn as we go, pilots that change the range of possibility.
It can be something small, like where a street lamp should go, or something medium like which library should have its hours extended or cut, or maybe something bigger, like whether a dilapidated waterfront should be turned into a highway or a greenway, or whether all the businesses in your town should be required to pay a living wage.
Why would I buy insurance now?" Now many of you know microcredit, the method of providing small loans to poor people pioneered by Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Grameen Bank.
Now, I've spent the last 27 years of my life in India, lived in three small towns, two major cities, and I've had several experiences.
These are the asteroids we may one day send spacecraft to, to mine them for minerals, but they're also the asteroids that may one day impact the Earth, like happened 60 million years ago with the extinction of the dinosaurs, or just at the beginning of the last century, when an asteroid wiped out almost 1,000 square miles of Siberian forest, or even just last year, as one burnt up over Russia, releasing the energy of a small nuclear bomb.
Small changes give rise to big consequences.
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