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We've spent the past 10 years at the University of Cambridge trying to understand how this malfunction works.

Using Celtic and Latin sources, he spent years creating a lengthy chronicle titled, "The History of the Kings of Britain."

And we've really spent the last 100 years trying to replicate that model over and over again in noninfectious diseases, in chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension and heart disease.

Chaucer spent most of his life as a government official during the Hundred Years' War, traveling throughout Italy and France, as well as his native England.

Now, in fairness, if you've spent any time at all in Washington, DC, you know this is really a radical concept for the government.

He was raised in a middle class family, and his father in the middle there is a chemical engineer who spent 11 years in prison for belonging to the political opposition in Syria.

The last night we know he was alive, he spent at a cheap hotel close to the train station in Dunkirk.

So, I've spent time living with families like Ella's in different parts of the world, because I want to know: what can we learn from places where our social institutions just aren't working?

And I also spent time with the frontline workers, and I learned that it is an impossible situation.

So Tom, who is the social worker for Ella's 14-year-old son Ryan, has to spend 86 percent of his time servicing the system: meetings with colleagues, filling out forms, more meetings with colleagues to discuss the forms, and maybe most shockingly, the 14 percent of the time he has to be with Ryan is spent getting data and information for the system.

In my work at the front line, I've seen again and again how up to 80 percent of resource is spent keeping people out.

Another guy thought he had a terrible skin disease and spent six months with dermatologists, going from doctor to doctor.

Cantor was even vilified personally, and it got so bad for him that he suffered severe depression, and spent the last half of his life in and out of mental institutions.

If you received a mole of pennies on the day you were born and spent a million dollars a second until the day you died at the age of 100, you would still have more than 99.99% of your money in the bank.

Over the course of two years, my faithful husband Dylan and I each spent over 300 hours underground, hiking, crawling and wriggling around 52 sites in France, Spain, Portugal and Sicily.

Having spent my life reading almost exclusively British and North American books, I had no idea how to go about sourcing and finding stories and choosing them from much of the rest of the world.

Now, having spent several months trying everything I could think of to find a book that had been translated into English from the nation, it seemed as though the only option left to me was to see if I could get something translated for me from scratch.

And I spent a month or so experimenting with PLA, which is a hard and scratchy, breakable material.

For example, he thought that because giraffes spent their lives stretching to reach leaves on higher branches, their children would be born with longer necks.

Time spent decoding makes it hard to keep up with peers and gain sufficient comprehension.

Two major superpowers trying to outdo each other by pursuing symbolic projects that were both dangerous and expensive, using resources that could have been better spent elsewhere?

Theorists have spent decades trying to understand why it has this very peculiarly fine-tuned number, and they've come up with a number of possible explanations.

Einstein himself spent most of his later years on a futile search for a unified theory of physics, and physicists have kept at it ever since.

In the 20th century, we literally spent trillions of dollars building infrastructure to get water to our cities.

I said, "Solomon, I spent all night coming up with this code we need to use in all further correspondence: Lawyer: Gummy Bear.

And that was so much fun, right, that it got me thinking: like, what would happen if I just spent as much time as could replying to as many scam emails as I could?

When Scoville informed another expert, Wilder Penfield, of the results, he sent a Ph.D student named Brenda Milner to study H.M. at his parents' home, where he now spent his days doing odd chores, and watching classic movies for the first time, over and over.

Though H.M. spent most of his life forgetting things, he and his contributions to our understanding of memory will be remembered for generations to come.

So I've spent the last 21 years trying to understand how they do this.

Robert Burton, born in 1577, spent his life studying the causes and experience of sadness.

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