• But Ditmire from Fox-Pitt Kelton says the so-called hybrid half-human, half-electronic system at NYSE "is at a relative disadvantage" on days like Thursday.

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  • When Abe finds out his species -- the half-human, half-lizard Mudokons -- is next for the sausage grinder, he sets out to free them.

    FORBES: Grow up!

  • It may surprise you to know that despite all of these advantages, the average Fortune 500 is extinct in 40 years half a human lifetime.

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  • What if you do not have an opportunity to go to school, are you only a half-charged human?

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  • Empowering women in Asia is an important step toward boosting overall economic growth (why give short shrift to half of your human resources?).

    FORBES: Side Lines

  • The list of ways that men can put their shoulders to the wheel and help unleash the brainpower of the other half of the human race is endless.

    FORBES: Connect

  • It has been noted that women are responsible for half of the human knowledge and technical expertise as informal agriculturalists, gardeners, animal-breeders, managers of their community resources as well as technological innovators and agents of change.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE

  • In a 2011 survey of corporate onboarding practices by the Society for Human Resource Management, about half of respondents said that limited time and insufficient human-resources staffing prevented them from offering formal programs for new hires.

    WSJ: Companies Try to Make the First Day for New Hires More Fun

  • South Korea's researchers have taken egg cells from volunteer women, removed the nuclei from those cells (which contain only half of the genetic complement required to make a human being, since the other half is provided by the sperm), and replaced each nucleus with one taken from one of the volunteer's body cells (which contains a full genetic complement).

    ECONOMIST: An embryonic development

  • The secret to the screens is in what's behind them: a thin strip of metal-coated plastic that's only 50 microns thick -- about half the width of a human hair -- and wraps around a spool.

    CNN: HP developing a 'Dick Tracy' wristwatch

  • Following a challenge by the family of Patrick Shanahan in Northern Ireland, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that any failure to hold an inquest within a four and a half year period was a breach of international and human rights commitments.

    BBC: Denis Donaldson inquest postponed for the fifth time

  • Living standards one and a half times as high over a human lifespan that then measured 42 years.

    WHITEHOUSE: The U.S.-India Economic Relationship in the 21st Century

  • There are 23 pairs of human chromosomes and children get half a set from each parent.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • When considering why infrastructure is hard to optimize, the other half of the answer lies in basic human behavior.

    FORBES: The Only Thing Right About a Forecast Is That It's Wrong

  • And there has been a human toll: more than half of the pearl farmers in Masaki have been forced out of business since 1988.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • He says half of his money will go to human research.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It usually takes several hours to a half day to print a copy of a human organ depending on its size.

    WSJ: Next to Use 3-D Printing: Your Surgeon

  • Above all, with the human population set to increase by half over the next 40 years, the world needs to work out where its food is going to be produced.

    ECONOMIST: A special report on forests

  • Certainly, the LRA and FDLR are incorrigible militias responsible for some of the worst human rights atrocities of the last half century, and the responsible use of international military force is a required part of their neutralization.

    CNN: Commentary: Obama can end 'reign of terror'

  • Half of my work is how to make our human activity more friendly to the rest of creation.

    FORBES: Stanford Professor Uses Software To Value Nature

  • American exports of horsemeat for human consumption have fallen by more than half in the past seven years, and the number of horses slaughtered is a quarter of what it was a decade ago.

    ECONOMIST: From plain to plate

  • Today nearly half the nitrogen atoms in the proteins of an average human being's body came at some time or another through an ammonia factory.

    ECONOMIST: The story of man's staple food

  • Oil actually wears over a half dozen other hats, all of which are foundational to human society and its ability to continue on as we currently enjoy it.

    FORBES: Peak Oil and ERoEI: Still Nonsense

  • He said scientists have identified 95% of asteroids more than a half-mile in diameter -- the kind that threaten human existence if they strike Earth, like the six-mile-wide one believed to have wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago -- and found none on a collision course with the planet.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • "Mubarak died a year and half ago as far as I'm concerned, " the human resources manager said.

    CNN: Egypt election results delayed

  • Then, three and one half years later, a young cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin leant his human face to a new extraterrestrial space era that threatened to leave the U .

    FORBES: Neil Armstrong's Immortal Footprint

  • Labor unions also got their share of goodies from ACA. Even though union members make up only 13 percent of the labor force, they constituted roughly half of those who benefited from waivers handed out by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

    FORBES: Health Care Cronyism

  • The last time I checked with biologists, philosophers and even politicians on both sides of the debates about abortion, stem cell research and cloning, they were pretty certain human individuals were defined by two sets of chromosomes (half from the male, half from the female) which were arranged in the one-celled zygote after fertilization.

    FORBES: Biologist Asserts Your Life Began...Before Fertilization.

  • When Adam Smith argued that human beings are essentially selfish he was not wrong but only half right.

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  • Miss Swapna hurts and committed Suicide when her dead body was in her home, she got job conformation letter through post. if she waits for another half an hour she had a bright future.. but a valuable Human life closed because of false decision.

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