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Afraid of being eaten, or just to avoid further suffering, they committed suicide or starved themselves, believing that in death, their souls would return home.
But any remaining panic subsided as I walked into the courtroom and looked around at a sea of friendly faces: our individual women clients who had shared their deeply personal stories, the geneticists who had taken huge chunks of time out of their busy careers to dedicate themselves to this fight and representatives from a diverse array of medical, patient advocacy, environmental and religious organizations, who had submitted friend of the court briefs in the case.
But as long as the source is moving slower than the sound waves themselves, they will remain nested within each other.
We check and recognize the shops and restaurants that have declared themselves a plastic bag-free zone, and we put this sticker at their entrance and publish their names on social media and some important magazines on Bali.
These are very interesting circuits in the spinal cord of vertebrate animals that can generate, by themselves, very coordinated rhythmic patterns of activity while receiving only very simple input signals.
The alternative is that civilizations don't last very long, but destroy themselves.
Now, just like trying to force myself to pay attention to my breath, they could try to force themselves to quit smoking.
There are no reflective surfaces, all water is in opaque containers, and most importantly, they're not allowed to communicate among themselves.
What any given prisoner doesn't know is whether they themselves are one of the green-eyed people the others are keeping track of until as many nights have passed as the number of prisoners on the island.
But in essence, it cannot be a situation where we start ascribing policies to the emerging markets without developed countries themselves also taking quite a swipe at what they're doing both in demand and supply in developed markets.
Special Olympics teaches athletes to be confident and proud of themselves.
It's not a weakness or a personality trait, and they shouldn't expect themselves to just get over it anymore than they could will themselves to get over a broken arm.
I think we ought to approach this challenge with a sense of profound joy and gratitude that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.
Lovers support each other in discovering themselves, reaching beyond themselves, and enriching their lives and the world together.
When plankton concentrations become patchy, manta rays feed alone and they somersault themselves backwards again and again, very much like a puppy chasing its own tail.
Two more lessons: I want you to think about the power that we were able to generate with the data from people who had volunteered their adverse reactions through their pharmacists, through themselves, through their doctors, the people who allowed the databases at Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, to be used for research.
My two- and four-year-old only ever want to play with me for about 15 minutes or so before they think to themselves they want to do something else.
Their idea is based on the work of a mathematician named John von Neumann, who designed on paper machines that could self-replicate and create new generations of themselves.
They would then mine the available resources and harvest energy, build replicas of themselves, launch those to the nearest planets, and continue the cycle.
On the day of the big concert, the band wakes up to find themselves tied up in a windowless, soundproof practice room.
First of all, we can get around to not knowing what 'ozo' and 'ulu' mean by including the words themselves in the questions, and secondly, if we load each question with a hypothetical condition, whether an alien is lying or not won't actually matter.
So while many athletes and performers attribute their successes to muscle memory, muscles themselves don't really have memory.
We counseled the partners of infected men about how to protect themselves.
Their eggs are soft-shelled, and when their babies hatch, they suckle milk from pores on their mother's body until they're large enough to feed themselves.
What if your neighbor had introduced themselves first, with their name, where they're from, the name of their kids or their dog?
People share a part of themselves, and that changes everything.
Sloths also use less energy to keep themselves warm because their body temperature can fluctuate by about five degrees Celsius, less than a cold-blooded reptile, but more than most mammals.
But it's also made the sloths themselves a great habitat for other organisms, including algae, which provides a little extra camouflage, and maybe even a snack.
The British East India company also wanted to be able to grow tea themselves and further control the market.
So what I want to argue is there are ways in which we can expand that choice set and still benefit everyone else: the host states and communities, our societies and refugees themselves.
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