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While Kafka often seems suspended in strangeness, there’s a tenderness and integrity at the heart of his mission that keeps him moving forward.
Under a new program, with the kind of Orwellian title "Migrant Protection Protocols," refugees are told they have to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through the courts in the United States, and this can take months or years.
It's what makes a child play a violin at home, while his father works in his carpentry.
It's what makes a little girl play the clarinet at home, while her mother does the housework.
One experimenter expressed a negative value towards pressing the remote, saying, "Yuck, the toy moved," while the other experimenter expressed a positive value, saying, "Yay, the toy moved."
Blood, in either liquid or powdered form, was used to treat epilepsy, while human liver, gall stones, oil distilled from human brains, and pulverized hearts were popular medical concoctions.
But while fair officials worried about the pigs, the Maryland department of health was concerned about a group of sick fairgoers.
Some had pet the pigs, while others had merely been near their barns; but soon, 40 of these attendees would be diagnosed with swine flu.
In the 1250s, the Mongols seized Islamic territory as far as Baghdad, while in the East their grasp reached southern China by 1279.
Even though the Empire lasted only a short while, the Mongols left a legacy of world- domination that remains unmatched today.
While you can talk to each other now over the interdimensional radio and agree on a plan, the robot’s teleportation technology will interfere with all attempts at communication once it arrives.
It may take a while– most likely the robot will need to teleport around 355 times; but better that than leave anyone behind.
While she was determined to take her pacifist principles as far as possible, Noor had to learn the art of espionage.
While local and sustainable foods have been trending for almost a decade, terms like "healthy" and "natural" have no legal framework in the United States.
One week, we'd talk about what food we wanted to eat, what time us kids should go to bed and how to improve things as a family, while another meeting discussed pretty much events that happened at school and how to solve disputes between siblings, by which I mean real fights.
The problem was that after each dinner, I was always the only one who was asked to wash the dishes, while my brothers didn't have to do anything about it.
And these few have been historically almost exclusively men, and they've produced laws, policies, mechanisms for political participation that are based on the opinions, beliefs, worldviews, dreams, aspirations of this one group of people, while everyone else was kept out.
Every family is its own mini political system that is usually not democratic, because parents make decisions that affect all members of the family, while the kids have very little to say.
Similarly, politicians make decisions that affect the whole nation, while the people have very little say in them.
We've made immense sacrifices to act locally ... and while individual localized efforts will continue to be important, they cannot stand up to the onslaught of climate change.
And while they can hold their cabinet meetings underwater to send an SOS to the world, their country can keep existing only if their islands keep existing.
A model that excludes billions of people while making a handful unimaginably rich?
But while none of Hypatia’s own writings survive, her contemporaries’ and students’ accounts of her work and life paint a picture of the qualities that made her renowned as a scholar, beloved as a teacher, and ultimately led to her downfall.
While Hypatia was considered pagan— a term for traditional Roman belief before Christianity— she worshipped no particular deity or deities, and her ideas could be applied alongside multiple religious viewpoints.
Antibiotics were an amazing drug, for a while.
From your hiding spot, you can see him on the other side of the glass, while in front of you an interrogator wearing headphones speaks into a microphone.
Again you can’t hear the answer but can tell the chef is lying, while the interrogator takes him at his word.
While the clan welcomed the Argonauts with open arms, the monsters surged down from the mountains and hurled rocks at the docked ship.
Yet while Jason rested and celebrated with his crew, he could feel his time among them was drawing to a close.
Our experiments suggest a different method that may be effective in balancing these two goals at the same time, by forming small groups that converge to a single decision while still maintaining diversity of opinions because there are many independent groups.
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