Close to 120 years have passed since Riis published How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.
In Riis' view, "the tendency of the tenements and of their tenants is all the time, and rapidly, downward, " as he wrote in How the Other Half Lives.
The percentage remaining (50% of the remaining) to the responding to the number of half-lives elapsed contradicts the phrase, the heavier something is the shorter its half-life, as stated above.
The reliability of percentage remaining (50% of the remaining rule) that has been used by scientists for the relative half-lives elapsed in responding to radiometric dating method is in question.
But half the tour lives in this area, so I'm sure I can find somewhere to stay.
Allowing VAT on food and medicine could be costly in a country where half the population lives in poverty.
More than half the population lives in public housing, and many have purchased homes thanks to subsidized mortgages and other assistance.
Over half the population lives off less than 2, 400 calories a day, compared with an average of a third for all of India.
In neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, recently-ended wars have cost around half a million lives in 15 years and left millions beggared and bereaved.
In other words, each half of the country lives within its own echo chamber, only consuming what it wants to hear.
Only in the past week, five police officers have lost their lives in half a dozen shootouts with wanted men, against only eight arrests.
But in Nunavut, for example, alcoholism and suicide rates are higher than the national average, life expectancy is lower and almost half of the population lives in overcrowded housing.
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Commodity prices have come down, there is less access to trade, and so for the poorest people, the three billion - half the world that lives on under two dollars a day - it is a serious issue.
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Over half of the global population lives in cities and many are crowded, dirty and short on parking.
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Had the allies of World War II been prepared with a sufficient number of so pedestrian a thing as landing craft, the war might have been cheated of a year and a half and many millions of lives.
Every year, nearly half a million women lose their lives to this terrible, treatable, and often preventable, disease.
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Jane lives in a condo half way between her son and his two children and her daughter with her two children.
Now, more than half a century later, Feit lives in a pleasant neighborhood in Phoenix, after leaving the priesthood in the late '60s.
She says half the retirement community where she lives goes there.
Sanjay Chaudhary, who lives in the other half of the duplex with his family, said the RCMP questioned him about his neighbor Jaser, asking whether he knew him or spoke to him often.
More than half the world's population already lives in cities and the urban population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2030.
Women in high-flying jobs earn almost half a million pounds less in their lives than men with identical careers, a damning report reveals today.
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Approximately one-half of the world's population lives in rural areas, according to the World Health Organization, and most of them usually lack trained health care workers.
Mr Brown, on a week-long tour of Africa, spent two days in Tanzania before heading on Friday evening to Mozambique, a country where more than half of the 17-million population lives below the poverty line.
One patient, who lives an hour and a half away from the medical centre running the trial, has had regular adjustments to her medication and treatment as a result of her transmissions back to her doctor's office.
Maybe the story traces back a century and a half, to the laborers who risked their lives to connect our coasts by rail.
Most traditional servers do nothing for about 90% of their lives and continue to burn about half their peak energy consumption even while idle.
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