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It's actually a very pretty area of Cambodia, where rice growing takes place.
Baseload electricity is what it takes to run a city, or a city planet.
This summer, in New York: there is one thing about falling water which is very much about the time it takes for water to fall.
In the time it takes us to evolve one mechanism of resistance, a pathogenic species will go through millions of generations, giving it ample time to evolve, so it can continue using our bodies as a host.
A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.
"Horizon," which takes its cue from the academics, won't touch it with a barge pole.
Because the kind of choice you might want to give to a leader, a choice like giving the president the choice to raise prices on electricity, takes away a choice that people in the economy want.
Perhaps even in some arrangement that's a little bit like an escrow account, where you put land in the escrow account and the partner nation takes responsibility for it.
There are many many ways that nature filters water that takes salt out of water.
And then we wonder why the membrane clogs and why it takes so much electricity.
To one group he said, "I'm going to time you to establish norms, averages for how long it typically takes someone to solve this sort of problem."
Agriculture takes 70 percent of fresh water supplies on earth.
And, well, sometimes it takes a long time for a dream to come true.
The capsid doesn't have nearly as many weak points where soap amphiphiles can pry it apart, so it takes longer for soap to be effective.
Special people, special places, think up special ideas, then you have a pipeline that takes the ideas down to the waiting consumers, who are passive.
It takes children a long time to break into the system.
And he takes this one.
This system takes a long time to develop, slowly throughout the course of childhood and into early adolescence.
Science shows us that the more options we have, then the longer each decision takes.
Xoquauhtli takes a few drops of water from a jade bowl, breaths on them, and places them on the baby’s tiny tongue.
So I have shown you this to demonstrate how many boats, how many vessels it takes to catch one of these guys.
A spine takes several years.
But more severe circumstances require a device that takes over the entire breathing process.
Later, our family moved from New York to Florida just as I was starting high school, and being the new kid at the parochial school, not knowing anyone and being worried about fitting in, on the very first day of school, a teacher takes roll and calls out "Anne Marie Albano," to which I respond, [In a Staten Island accent] "Here!"
And self-efficacy takes shape, which, simply put, is the belief in oneself that you can overcome challenging situations.
It’s a dangerous journey that takes five days, precious time he doesn’t have to waste.
I felt like a war photographer who takes pictures of terrible events, but doesn't intervene on their behalf.
And so many low-income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.
It takes about 10 calories to produce every calorie of food that we consume in the West.
They'll do whatever it takes to survive, even if that means undermining other people.
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