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Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.
We think we're now at 95 percent accuracy when it comes to drone strikes.
And so we have three strikes laws that put people in prison forever for stealing a bicycle, for low-level property crimes, rather than making them give those resources back to the people who they victimized.
There are 44 lightning strikes per second around the globe.
But every musician strikes a different balance between faith and reason, instinct and intelligence.
Y2K, the dotcom bubble, stressing about whose party you're going to go to as the clock strikes midnight, before the champagne goes flat, and then there's that inchoate yearning that was felt, I think, by many, that the millennium, that the year 2000, should mean more, more than just a two and some zeroes.
But it strikes me that the biggest problems we face, many of the biggest disasters that we've experienced, mostly haven't come from individuals, they've come from organizations, some of them bigger than countries, many of them capable of affecting hundreds, thousands, even millions of lives.
Well, when you read through the case materials in this Carrillo case, one of the things that suddenly strikes you is that the investigating officers said the lighting was good at the crime scene, at the shooting.
And as I look at the conversation, it strikes me that it's focused on exactly the right topic, and at the same time, it's missing the point entirely.
If an earthquake strikes tonight, I used to worry, what will happen to our house?
CA: OK, I want to talk for a couple of minutes about this, because this strikes me as a huge deal, not just for Netflix, for the internet as a whole.
Those are all cases in which a lot of value is lost by delay and strikes.
It strikes me that we talk very deeply about design, but actually there's an economics behind architecture that we don't talk about, and I think we need to.
Twenty milliseconds later, the whole process is repeated until the quad strikes the ball.
For one thing, it strikes hardest during harvest season, so exactly when farmers need to be out in the fields collecting their crops, they're home sick with a fever.
In this particular case, he's talking about drone strikes.
Obviously this is not a mandated duty, but for the gifted filmmaker and the responsible journalist or even blogger, it strikes me as being utterly inescapable.
It strikes me as a better goal, and, dare I say, a more virtuous one, to focus on making productive kids and moral kids, and to simply hope that happiness will come to them by virtue of the good that they do and their accomplishments and the love that they feel from us.
And it strikes me that this idea of science as a tool for translation rather than invention is one that we can apply much more widely than this in the pursuit of innovation.
After a free fall of four to five seconds, the body strikes the water at about 75 miles an hour.
These branching patterns that we see we see across all forms, scales of nature, from river deltas to lightning strikes, from our own blood vessels to neural networks.
Migrant workers from Rome to Los Angeles and many cities between are now organizing to stage strikes to remind the people who live in their cities what a day without immigrants would look like.
I want a web which is such a powerful basis for innovation that when something nasty happens, some disaster strikes, that we can respond by building stuff to respond to it very quickly.
MP: You see, spinal cord injury strikes at the very heart of what it means to be human.
It became so big that it went from online to the streets of my hometown, where we would do rallies and strikes trying to change the policies in Pakistan for women's support.
And 1,000 kilometers away from the safety of land, disaster strikes.
CA: So that strikes me as a profound and quite beautiful way to end this penultimate day of TED.
They drove at night or in the early morning to avoid air strikes, and watchmen were ready to warn drivers of enemy aircraft.
We learned about the power of hunger strikes he did to reach his goals.
The answer is complicated, and lies in how the brain responds when something strikes it.
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