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Rescue 911, ER, Law & Order, Third Watch, Cops; the entire medical and police reality television genre can trace their origins to Emergency! and once a compatible DVD box set for Australian players arrives I'll have it to reminisce with too.
Can we really trace the roots of today’s malaise back to the 1980’s?
It is also difficult to trace back to the 1980’s the origins of the credit explosion and the proliferation of exotic and poorly understood financial instruments that lay at the heart of the 2007-2008 crisis.
Europeans trace their malaise to a democratic deficit in the European Union.
The plan was not to trace genes directly to behavior, but to separate the problem into two questions: a developmental question ("how do genes build nervous systems?"), and a physiological question ("how do nervous systems or brains generate behavior?").
But Countdown to Zero, an equally compelling documentary, made by the same production team and making shockingly clear how close and how often the world has come to nuclear catastrophe, has come and gone almost without trace.
They cannot imagine disappearing without a trace, as many of their ancestors did under the old regime, when it was dangerous even to mention those who were gone.
That multimedia spectacular did far more than trace China’s 5,000-year history; it was a statement that China is a major civilization that demands and deserves its rightful place in the global hierarchy.
Without Wiesel, there would have remained no trace of countless lives reduced to ash and smoke.
PARIS -- Some academic works, for reasons that are at least partly obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history.
Caught early and addressed promptly, leprosy need leave no trace.
Some two-thirds of the greenhouse-gas emissions that are causing climate change trace back to fossil fuel use.
Such technologies enable us to record and trace the lifecycle of products – even money itself – thereby determining precisely how they were used, how they were financed, and what impact they had on the environment.
In the 20th century, some trace them to the German American émigré Leo Strauss, even to Carl Schmitt, Hitler's Jurist.
For the moment, the real question is if and when global regulation will stamp out privately constructed systems that are expensive for governments to trace and monitor.
At their best, they prevent disease without a trace, leaving little visible evidence of their crucial function.
One could trace its beginnings to the 1970’s, when recycled petrodollars fueled large capital inflows to developing nations.
And there were huge frustrations even when the search shifted to the Indian Ocean, as massive naval and air resources failed to find any trace of relevant surface debris.
These requests range from questions about the health hazards of trace amounts of arsenic in drinking water, to questions about how best to support various forms of scientific research.
Had BP spilled hundreds of billions of barrels of bitumen across hundreds of square kilometers, environmentalists would rightly demand that no expense be spared to rid the dirt of every trace of oil.
There was no trace of political life, no public debate, no young people talking about the books they were reading or the films they were watching.
They have started to trace the evolutionary origins of pro-social sentiments such as empathy, and have begun to uncover the genes that dispose some individuals to senseless violence and others to acts of altruism, and the pathways in our brain that shape our ethical decisions.
Puerto Rico’s current troubles trace their origin to the gradual withdrawal, starting in 1996, of earlier exemptions from US corporate taxes for companies located on the island.
UN missing-persons researchers – not criminal investigators – searched for them for years and found no trace of them in Kosovo.
And it works to return Jewish families’ stolen assets, by confronting museums that do not closely trace the provenance of art works.
If we model smell on local terms, we can trace how nasal neurons interact with scent particles, sending signals through a network of other neurons to the brain.
At the same time, the material brought back from land to sea include nutrients and trace elements that cause a boom among plankton, which in turn feed other marine biota.
But Chinese officials’ piecemeal efforts to restore confidence in the country’s exports – for example, establishing limits for trace amounts of melamine in dairy products and tightening quality-control regulations for the dairy industry – are unlikely to reassure foreign consumers or importers.
First, whereas most environmental insults – for example, water pollution, acid rain, or sulfur dioxide emissions – are mitigated promptly or in fairly short order when the source is cleaned up, emissions of CO2 and other trace gases remain in the atmosphere for centuries.
Important recent books, such as Duke University historian Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains and University of Oregon political scientist Gordon Lafer’s The One Percent Solution, trace the intellectual origins and organizational mechanisms of the Republicans’ assault on democracy.
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