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I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls "tomorrow's child," asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time.
In 1979 I had a chance to put my footprints on the ocean floor while using this personal submersible called Jim.
So while all that's going on, we're down in New Orleans and locations around the world.
After a year the ones from Japan are heading straight across the Pacific, while ours get caught in the California current and first head down to the latitude of Cabo San Lucas.
After ten years, a lot of the Japanese caps are in what we call the Eastern Garbage Patch, while ours litter the Philippines.
I remember coming up from one of these deep dives and I had this fog, and the narcosis takes a little while to fade away, sort of like sobering up.
I saw the structure while I was on the train, and I got off at the next station and met people there that gave me access to their catacomb-like basement, which was used for ammunition storage during the war and also, at some point, to hide groups of Jewish refugees.
The President himself is our most popular Twitter user, although his tweets have dropped off as of late, while Senator McCain's have picked up.
And they tapped into the fact that, if you have millions of people around the world talking about what they're doing and what's around them, you have an incredible resource to find out about any topic or event while it's going on.
We had slash and burn agriculture; people cannot afford the fertilizer, so they burn the trees and have the minerals available there; the fires become more frequent, and after a while you're stuck with an area of land where there is no fertility left.
The farmers have free land, the system yields early income, the orangutans get healthy food and we can speed up ecosystem regeneration while even saving some money.
So while my dad may have not taught me how to use my hands, he did teach me how to use my heart, and to me that makes him more a man than anything.
And that means the tea is partially covered while it completes the brewing.
So they him an artificial leg, and after a while, he went back to work in the rice fields.
And after a while, professor Kasser said to me, "Because we live in a machine that is designed to get us to neglect what is important about life."
While the government churned out national broadcasts which denied Nazi atrocities, the Scholls learned shocking truths.
After the outbreak of war, Sophie reluctantly worked for the national effort, and Hans had to take on army duties while attending medical school in Munich.
While the Gestapo searched for leads, the White Rose were constantly on guard.
Terra will remain on Earth, while Stella will board a spaceship.
Because all movement is relative, Stella argues it would be just as valid to say her spaceship will stand still while the rest of the universe, including Terra, moves around her.
Although each twin witnesses time both speeding up and slowing down for the other, Stella sees an even split, while Terra sees Stella aging slowly for most of the time they’re apart.
When the twins are reunited, Terra will be 43 years old, while Stella will be 31.
While our earliest records of chess are in the 7th century, legend tells that the game’s origins lie a century earlier.
While they were out during the day, an intercepted parchment arrived.
I noticed that while there were a lot of people who were denouncing pornography, there were also people who were staunch defenders of it for a variety of reasons.
Four years ago, when that case ended, our team sat there, and we just felt this, um ... ... deep sense of failure, is the way I can put it, because we watched that whole year while they looked for her.
Well, as a consequence of that thinking, over the last 30 years, in the USA alone, the top one percent has grown 21 trillion dollars richer while the bottom 50 percent have grown 900 billion dollars poorer, a pattern of widening inequality that has largely repeated itself across the world.
I kept on doing this for a while.
[Hard Brexit?] (Laughter) In the Middle East, we believed for a while in the democratic miracle of the Arab Spring.
While the book is set at the point of Rahel and Estha’s reunion, the narrative takes place mostly in the past, reconstructing the details around the tragic events that led to their separation.
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