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We received death threats.
Along the way, debris, pitfalls, crabs, gulls, raccoons, and other threats will claim roughly 50 percent of those who rose from the sand.
For those that actually reach the surf, they trade one set of threats for another, as they first face the repelling force of the waves, and then find a whole new host of predators awaiting them: Various fish, dolphins, sharks, and sea birds, as the young turtles come to the surface for air.
Getting lost, starving to death, and the possibility of attacks by wild tigers or bears were constant threats.
And these would all be bad on their own, but these threats magnify each other and compound one another and make each other worse.
This magnification of threats, this compounding of factors is what Jeremy Jackson describes as the "slippery slope to slime."
To understand the pace of our own government thinking on this, I like to turn to something aptly named the Worldwide Threat Assessment, where every year the Director of National Intelligence in the US looks at the global threat landscape, and he says, "These are the threats, these are the details, and this is how we rank them."
The peppers have elicited the same fight-or-flight response with which your body reacts to most threats.
While exploring their environment in this way, an ant may come across any number of things, from threats or enemies, to alternate nesting sites.
The first stage, hemostasis, is the skin's response to two immediate threats: that you're now losing blood and that the physical barrier of the epidermis has been compromised.
As the blood vessels tighten to minimize the bleeding, in a process known as vasoconstriction, both threats are averted by forming a blood clot.
They can respond with kindness to people in distress, or with aggression to threats because stress and anger manifest as a cloud of hormones recognizable to the dog's nose.
With the proper training, they can even alert us to invisible threats ranging from bombs to cancer.
In hospitals there, there's a community of nurses, physicians and scientists that have been quietly battling one of the deadliest threats to humanity for years: Lassa virus.
See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division.
But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same.
If you can view those situations as challenges you can control and master, rather than as threats that are insurmountable, you will perform better in the short run and stay healthy in the long run.
Most notably, millions of people worldwide suffer from autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system treats normal bodily cues as threats, so the body attacks itself.
In these cases, genetic differences, like how each organism's cells respond to threats, often account for the discrepancies in longevity.
This might explain why we don't feel itching inside our bodies, like in our intestines, which is safe from these external threats, though imagine how maddening that would be.
But when their practices involve harassment, threats, illegal activities, or abuse, the law can intervene.
This system is a vast network of cells, tissues, and organs that coordinate your body’s defenses against any threats to your health.
Threats to our bodies are hugely variable, so the immune response has to be equally adaptable.
That means relying on many different types of leukocytes to tackle threats in different ways.
Without it, those threats would escalate into something far more dangerous.
And when she was exposed, she received a demotion, death threats, over collegiate sports.
Now, whistle-blowing doesn't always have to end in demotions or death threats.
Police and prison guards in Cambodia, for example, have been documented subjecting sex workers to what can only be described as torture: threats at gunpoint, beatings, electric shocks, rape and denial of food.
And those death threats are definitely not funny.
It's able to actually develop targeted antibodies to threats that it's never even met before.
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