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Because they're doing so much dirty production in Asia now, because the environmental laws don't protect the people in Asia now, almost all of the clean air gains and the toxic air gains that we've achieved here in California have been wiped out by dirty air coming over from Asia.
But it's around us everywhere, presumably, if it hasn't been wiped out by some other process in the universe.
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page.
Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid landed on Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula, creating conditions equivalent to those of a nuclear war, and the dinosaurs were wiped out.
Images of the earth being wiped out by flood or bird flu: 64 percent.
And when I first learned about endangered species, I was truly distressed to know that every day, animals were being wiped off the face of this Earth forever.
My gaze went to another young woman as she wiped the face of another dying person.
It wiped out 75 percent of all species on Earth.
This was 50,000 years ago, so it may have wiped out a few buffalo or antelope, or something like that out in the desert, but it probably would not have caused global devastation.
Nineteen of the unique 20 fish species found only in the Aral Sea are now wiped off the face of the Earth.
But those ants, even though most of them get wiped out, those ants are the ones that are essential to the survival of the hive.
So almost all life on Earth is wiped out about five times.
Half his battalion was wiped out in the sandstorm.
Cities were totally wiped out because of the lack of water.
So when I get sad about sanitation, I think of Japan, because Japan 70 years ago was a nation of people who used pit latrines and wiped with sticks, and now it's a nation of what are called Woshurettos, washlet toilets.
The grizzly would soon be wiped out from 95 percent of its original territory, and whereas once there had been 30 million bison moving across the plains, and you would have these stories of trains having to stop for four or five hours so that these thick, living rivers of the animals could pour over the tracks, now, by 1902, there were maybe less than 100 left in the wild.
These are the asteroids we may one day send spacecraft to, to mine them for minerals, but they're also the asteroids that may one day impact the Earth, like happened 60 million years ago with the extinction of the dinosaurs, or just at the beginning of the last century, when an asteroid wiped out almost 1,000 square miles of Siberian forest, or even just last year, as one burnt up over Russia, releasing the energy of a small nuclear bomb.
If you'd have dropped a bomb on that room, you'd have wiped out all the money in Pennsylvania because it was all sitting there.
Millions of people had emigrated, the economy was in a shambles, and it seemed all of a sudden that 30 years of development had been wiped out.
Eventually, these traces, too, will be wiped from the planet’s surface.
In the 1950s, this virus nearly wiped out the entire production of papaya on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
When I was a kid, they cut my hair, wiped my nose, tied my shoes.
I hypothesize that this massive bundle of connections is completely wiped out in a zombie.
Don't we deserve a hero to remind everyone that our country was build on the struggles of immigrants?" "And what about the struggles of Native Americans who were nearly wiped out and forced into reservations and whose descendants still suffer from poverty and discrimination?
The pivotal, calamitous day during which the dinosaurs were wiped out, setting the stage for the modern world as we know it didn't have to be.
A catastrophic factory fire, like the one we see here, completely wiped out, in one evening, the only plant which supplied Toyota with valves for car-braking systems.
This village was under a real threat of being wiped off the map when Israel started building the separation barrier.
They were almost entirely replaced with fossil fuels, and so the consequence was that we wiped out almost as much clean energy electricity that we get from solar.
Do you guys remember Watson, IBM's machine-intelligence system that wiped the floor with human contestants on Jeopardy?
In May of 2010, a flash crash on Wall Street fueled by a feedback loop in Wall Street's "sell" algorithm wiped a trillion dollars of value in 36 minutes.
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