When Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets were launched in the 1960s, the country stopped to watch the launch.

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In Gough Square, in front of Samuel Johnson's tall and staring house, I stopped for a while to watch a workman digging up a drain, taking the opportunity to gaze down into the rich strata that lay beneath the London pavement.

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One reassurance it offered was that independent committees assigned to watch over its ongoing studies have not stopped those clinical trials, as they would if they were unsafe.

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That said, it would be interesting to see how many people continue to watch e-Sports events after they have stopped playing the game regularly.

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If we stopped asking them to save us from ourselves, we could do much more than watch TV in peace.

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With Remote, it is possible to watch a video on an Android phone, stop it midway through, and transfer the video, stopped at that point, to a Google TV box.

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