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But as soon as the threat is passed, the entrance is open again, and maybe there are situations in computer security where operating costs are low enough that we could just block access temporarily in response to an immediate threat, and then open it again, instead of trying to build a permanent firewall or fortress.

By 2007, when a survey of appraisers was done, 90 percent of appraisers reported that they had been subject to coercion from the lenders trying to get them to inflate an appraisal.

Remember, they were pressuring the appraisers through the compensation system, trying to produce what we call a Gresham's dynamic, in which bad ethics drives good ethics out of the marketplace.

The world is filled with danger, things that are trying to frustrate our lives or reduce our success, reduce our opportunity for success.

Or it could be your competition that is sometimes trying to kill you.

It's sometimes trying to put you out of business, but at the very minimum is working hard to frustrate your growth and steal your business from you.

To prove it, I spent two years of my life trying to go 100 years back, to the year 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution.

And one day, he was sitting in a diner in White Plains, about to go trying to dream up some work for Nescafé.

And this woman says, "My brother is having trouble getting dates, so he's trying speed dating."

As a scientist, and also as a human being, I've been trying to make myself susceptible to wonder.

Now, if you put that word into the web, as you may have done, you'll come up with millions of hits, and almost all of those sites are trying to sell you something to make you irresistible for 10 dollars or more.

But maybe, if what we're trying to do is to develop therapies for prevention, maybe what we should be doing is studying those who don't get sick.

Well, there's a new field, a relatively new field of social science that started looking at these questions and trying to unpack the powerful and sometimes pretty schizophrenic relationships that we have to animals, and I spent a lot of time looking through their academic journals, and all I can really say is that their findings are astonishingly wide-ranging.

So 200 years ago, you would have Arctic explorers writing about polar bears leaping into their boats and trying to devour them, even if they lit the bear on fire, but these kids don't see the polar bear that way, and actually they don't even see the polar bear the way that I did back in the '80s.

You can get a sense of what it's like to have a 250-pound man sprinting at you trying to decapitate you with every ounce of his being.

But what is this technology worth to a teacher in a classroom trying to show a bully just how harmful his actions are from the perspective of the victim?

What is this technology worth to a gay Ugandan or Russian trying to show the world what it's like living under persecution?

What is this technology worth to a Commander Hadfield or a Neil deGrasse Tyson trying to inspire a generation of children to think more about space and science instead of quarterly reports and Kardashians?

People like Tammy Duckworth, who was a helicopter pilot and with the helicopter that she was flying, you need to use both your hands and also your legs to steer, and her helicopter gets hit, and she's trying to steer the chopper, but the chopper's not reacting to her instructions and to her commands.

She's trying to land the chopper safely, but the chopper doesn't land safely, and the reason it's not landing safely is because it's not responding to the commands that her legs are giving because her legs were blown off.

I wouldn't have to buy stuff that was 'Bedazzled', when I was trying to be like the cool kids."

So one day, I'm on a train, and I'm trying to decode the graphic rules for drops on a window.

I hear you and I know that you would want me to be strong, but right now, I am being sucked down, surrounded and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me.

There'll be worlds where, for whatever reason, civilizations either stay silent or don't spend long trying to communicate.

It's also about how appearances deceive, how our culture can sweep us along into doing and saying things we didn't intend or don't like, and Armantrout's style is trying to help us stop or slow down.

This happens about the same time that they get latched onto things like dinosaurs, these big things in the outside world, that they're trying to get a grip on.

For example, we were stuck for a year trying to understand the intricate biochemical networks inside our cells, and we said, "We are deeply in the cloud," and we had a playful conversation where my student Shai Shen Orr said, "Let's just draw this on a piece of paper, this network," and instead of saying, "But we've done that so many times and it doesn't work," I said, "Yes, and let's use a very big piece of paper," and then Ron Milo said, "Let's use a gigantic architect's blueprint kind of paper, and I know where to print it," and we printed out the network and looked at it, and that's where we made our most important discovery, that this complicated network is just made of a handful of simple, repeating interaction patterns like motifs in a stained glass window.

Here's the thing: If you ask dictionary editors, what they'll tell you is they're just trying to keep up with us as we change the language.

They're watching what we say and what we write and trying to figure out what's going to stick and what's not going to stick.

They try to provide us some guidance about words that are considered slang or informal or offensive, often through usage labels, but they're in something of a bind, because they're trying to describe what we do, and they know that we often go to dictionaries to get information about how we should use a word well or appropriately.

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