Now I think many of the things that we haven't had to deal with we're going to have to deal with, in relationships in the family, individual members whose lives have really changed forever because of what they've seen, the combat that they've been through, the stress they've been under.
After all, hardly anyone really lives in the country any more and a mere fraction of the population work on the land.
Working with a team from National Geographic that included a demographer, Buettner looked at why people in some cultures, like Okinowa, Japan, live really long lives.
"If you can alleviate a financial burden off these young kids where they can concentrate on rebuilding their lives, you can really make a difference, " he said.
It is why I love to make movies....It's nice playing a character that makes you uncomfortable and that makes you push your own boundaries and gives you the space to do that because our lives don't really allow for that.
Yongesa is a 52-year-old farmer, a laborer really, who lives on a lush little coffee plantation in the north Rift Valley.
And for Americans that are already struggling to get by, a hike in gas prices really makes their lives that much harder.
"Ebay really changed our lives, " says Corinna Alberigi of Bakersfield, Calif.
The scheme, however, will have to support many children for many years before anyone can be sure that it really improves their lives rather than just maintaining them.
But the results were not good enough for Dendreon to file with the Food and Drug Administration, and they could stoke investor fears that the study might not be big enough to prove Provenge is effective--even if the drug really does save lives.
Similarly, with the exception of slightly increasing the risk for suicidal thinking and gesturing, it does not appear that antidepressants do long-term damage in children and teenagers, and indeed, the best longer-term studies suggest that they help depressed teens really improve their lives.
It is time that we really look at the materials we use in our daily lives, particularly the disposable ones, and ask if we really need something to last for hundreds of years when we just use it for 30 seconds to stir a drink?
If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet.
So people who live downwind of big sources of pollution really do have drier lives.
"We've only professionally been in a relationship for two years, but it's really been our whole lives, " says Nikolai.
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In the process, it deflected attention from the children who really do have difficult lives and badly need help.
Technology has provided us with an infinite number of byte-sized ways to record our lives, but maybe what we really need is an easy way to swallow the best bite-sized memories.
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Even better, when people regain this creative confidence -- and we see it all the time at the d.school and at IDEO -- we've found that they start working on the things that are really important in their lives.
Many trials, however, are looking for subtler effects without, in the view of observers such as Hilda Bastian, the head of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, assessing whether the treatment really improves patients' lives, as opposed to changing a few physiological indicators.
"Despite the fact this is the worst thing we'll ever go through in our lives, I've been really humbled by the support of the Australian public, the tireless efforts of the police and all the friends and family who put their lives on hold to help us out, " he said.
We are uploading our lives onto the Internet, and not really thinking about what is being done with that information.
"When we learned that there were five children who lost their lives that day, that's really what sparked the idea, " designer Keith Kaseman said.
As a group, they were cautious, because the two defining national events of their lives taught them that you can never really count on anything.
"They never really talked about their personal lives, " he says.
Even as engineers stuff ever more gigahertz and gigabytes under the hood, the shell and shape of a phone is the only part that we ever touch, and the only part that is really a part of our lives in any physical sense.
"This is one way a community can help provide informal care that really makes a difference in the lives of the old people, " she said.
And channeling all of that energy into making a real difference in the lives of our veterans and military families is really what we want to do for you.
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Behavior tells you a lot about how people really take risk into account in their lives.
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