Tobias Seidl at the University of Zurich says that's because nobody thought fast-moving ants were smart enough to bend and stretch their way under low-hanging obstacles without first slowing down to check them out.

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However, when you think about it, a low student-teacher ratio goal, is specifically a low-productivity goal inconsistent with productivity increases needed to stretch scarce tax and tuition dollars.

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Healy replaced Warren Feeney and the substitute made an immediate impact with a low shot which had Mikkelsen at full-stretch.

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The world's able and fit congregate to breathe, stretch and awaken with low-impact tai chi, yoga and Chinese movement-and-breathing therapy, qi gong.

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Storm surges have the potential to be dangerous because they involve a great upwelling of a stretch of ocean - intense low pressure at the heart of a storm literally tugs the sea surface above its normal level to create a massive bulge.

BBC: Legacy of Britain's great flood

Heskey's strength in possession almost brought the breakthrough for Liverpol when he held off Cunningham to feed El-Hadji Diouf, whose low cross was punched away from Pongolle's lunge at full stretch by Ian Bennett.

BBC: Liverpool brush away Blues

Samuel Colman's watercolor "Wharf at Yonkers" (c.1869-70) takes a slightly different tack, his low viewpoint emphasizing the open sky and the broad stretch of Hudson waterway framed by the Palisades and the North Yonkers hills.

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Until the Great Recession, there was only one ten-year stretch in the post-war period, ending in early 1983, in which growth averaged as low as 2%.

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