And in one of the most remarkable stories we came across this week, a Honduran man who is confined to a wheelchair has devoted most of his life to building a helicopter out of scrap metal.
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But Waldrum and his colleagues carried out a theoretical calculation of the risk of loss of life due to lightning in a similar building frequented by large numbers of people, in a similar setting - assuming the lack of any lightning protection.
But what if you could tag a real-life building with a photo of yourself or some other content, as a form of virtual graffiti?
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Astrobiologists like the idea that life can be built with a completely different set of chemical building blocks because it means that life could then exist in all sorts of places that Earth-based living things would find intolerable.
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When individuals, households and communities can build assets such as education, savings or the capacity to earn a livelihood, they improve their chances of building a more resilient and productive life.
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But to ESRI, a GIS solution is about building a better future, improving quality of life and making better decisions.
Mr. Zuckerberg "is a 26-year-old man who has spent almost a quarter of his life building this company, " Orin Synder said in court.
If we look at economic reality, a building has a life of much more than the 27.5 or 39 years currently used for depreciation.
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And from someone who just went through the process of obtaining a real-life building variance, I can assure you that City Hall isn't exactly the ball pit at Chuck E.
Beijing, China (CNN) -- Two men were sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the collapse of a building in Shanghai last year, Chinese state media reported.
He had spent his adult life in the steel industry, much of it building up a steel trading company called Stinox.
For at least the first half of Israel's life the Zionist project building a state, defending the borders, gathering in the exiles created a strong feeling of national cohesion.
Similar to geologists evaluating how to produce a reservoir, the efficiency engineers use this comprehensive data to calibrate simulation models that predict the financial impact of a range of efficiency measures over the building life.
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In it, Tim Ferriss advocates building a business that supports your life, instead of using your life to support a business.
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"Throughout his life, His Eminence demonstrated courage and fortitude, contributing to the building of a new Iraq, " the statement said.
He gives himself over not to mourning but to building a new, grounded life from many individual acts of observation and judgment.
Building on a decade-long census of marine life, these powerful tools provide quantitative baselines of biodiversity at the regional and global level.
Through these twelve steps, AA achieves the moral education and esteem building necessary for a productive norm-abiding life in a community of mutual trust and respect.
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What makes this tale of amateur astral chemistry even more amazing is that cyanomethanimine is believed to be a precursor to RNA -- one of the building blocks of life on Earth.
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The Labour-run council said the current market in Pershore Street includes a 1970s building which had "come to the end of its life", safety issues - such as lighting problems as well as units which were "not fit for purpose".
It sets forth fundamental ethical principles for protecting the environment, building a strong community locally and globally, and a sustainable way of life.
"If we want to protect the next generation from a life lived under constant threat of eviction or rent rises, we have to invest in building more good quality, affordable homes, " he added.
And this will be the work of all who now labor in a building that bears the name of somebody who understood leadership, who lived a life of leadership, and that is Ronald H.
Most think of Marco Polo as Venetian, but although he set off from the Italian city for his great Asian odyssey, and lived there later in life, evidence points to his origins in a ship-building family from here, the coast of Dalmatia.
Two of the best are " Ice Lights", a light-installation at Vancouver City Hall that looks like ice framing the historic building, and " The Birds", a pair of larger-than-life bird sculptures that once stood sentry at the site of the Olympic Village and now roost at the Southeast False Creek Plaza.
" He adds a bit later: "That we live in a large spiral galaxy with very little central stellar bulge and a modest central black hole may be a clue to the type of galaxies best suited to life: ones that did not spend their pasts building colossal black holes and fighting the demons unleashed in the process.
For years the government had turned a blind eye to Kuwaitis illegally building diwaniyas a kind of salon, which is a cornerstone of Kuwaiti social life on public land.
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The Steele winery is a world apart from his past corporate life, which is to say it's quintessential Lake County: a low-slung building just off of the highway, across from a purveyor of farm equipment and pet food.
Is it smart to spend this crucial period building up a stable life: a promising job, a reliable partner, and an admirable assortment of kitchenware?
Surface surveys and rescue excavations, the result of a building boom in the Peloponnese, provide lots of new information about other areas of Bronze Age life, from farming to foreign trade.
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