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It's a weather-based insurance agency, and what these countries do is to pay insurance each year, about 3 million dollars a year of their own resources, so that in the event they have a difficult drought situation or flood, this money will be paid out to them, which they can then use to take care of their populations, instead of waiting for aid to come.

So one day, I was standing on a corner waiting for the light to change, which, I'm a New Yorker, so that means I was actually standing in the street on the storm drain, as if that could get me across faster.

We all know this, and yet, in the checklisted childhood, we absolve our kids of doing the work of chores around the house, and then they end up as young adults in the workplace still waiting for a checklist, but it doesn't exist, and more importantly, lacking the impulse, the instinct to roll up their sleeves and pitch in and look around and wonder, how can I be useful to my colleagues?

So to me, it's an experiment that's waiting to happen, and if it confirms the prediction, then we should have a very powerful tool.

And once the application was submitted, there were fingerprints to be taken, a test to study for, endless hours of waiting in line.

Now every crow within five kilometers is standing by a sidewalk, waiting to collect its lunch.

It is this fear that's feeding the diet industry, which is keeping so many of us from making peace with our own bodies, for waiting to be the after-photo before we truly start to live our lives.

And as I'm waiting for the ambulance to arrive for over an hour ... he bleeds to death on the street.

And 1.8 billion young people are waiting.

Right now, we're basically waiting for a miracle.

If you really want to judge people accurately, you have to get to the moment every consultant in the room is waiting for, and draw a two-by-two.

But when we dug deeper, we didn't find corruption in the classic sense: slimy gangsters lurking in the darkness, waiting to grease the palms of their friends.

Many of my colleagues had been working their entire careers for this moment, and frankly, to little curious me, this was the moment I'd been waiting for my entire life.

Well, because there's a good meal waiting for her at school.

So what about that kid who doesn't have a nutritious breakfast waiting for him?

And if so, what the heck are we waiting for?

Many of these people who are in jail only because they can't post bail are facing allegations so minor that the amount of time it would take for them to sit waiting for trial is longer than the sentence they would receive if convicted, which means they're guaranteed to get out faster if they just plead guilty.

Jennie's waiting room feels more like your aunt's living room than a clinic.

Lastly, when you finally are called back to see the provider, you've already taken your own weight in the waiting room, and done your own pee test in the bathroom.

It's a revolution in care just waiting to happen.

A typical cycle for the Row-bot looks like this: you open your mouth, you move, you close your mouth and you sit there for a while waiting.

But on that mountaintop, waiting for the wind to come in just right, I felt so many other things, too: exhilaration, confidence.

To me, phages are the superheroes that we have been waiting for in our fight against multidrug-resistant infections.

I've been waiting for this."

So if you're waiting for Paul Ryan and the Republicans in Congress to flake away, it's going to take a little while.

We want kids to think, "I'm a hero in waiting, waiting for the right situation to come along, and I will act heroically.

The point is, are we ready to take the path to celebrating ordinary heroes, waiting for the right situation to come along to put heroic imagination into action?

And then of course, as we reached our final destination, a place called Mamancana, we were in for a surprise, because the FARC were waiting to kidnap us.

So we found this tiny vein in a huge quarry in Portugal with this beautiful stone, which the owner had kept for seven generations in his family, waiting for the right project, if you can believe it.

Education from the folks behind the counter, but also education from folks in the waiting room.

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