It was only at that last moment that a U.S. serviceman realized Tamima wasn't dead -- just unconscious and pulled her out of the body bag.

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"They realized it wasn't very effective to just show one person talking on the phone, " says Howard Besser, a cinema studies professor at New York University's Tisch School.

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It wasn't until later that afternoon, when our friends cut into the cake, that we realized that the seeping liquid wasn't just raw egg whites, but raw batter as well.

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Or maybe it's just that Obama realized that his administration wasn't guilt-free in the AIG debacle.

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They grabbed the attention of world leaders who suddenly realized, you know, this isn't just another disaster, this is a massive catastrophe happening right before our eyes and something needs to be done about it.

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But it wasn't until she put on her first pair of skates that she realized just how much her weight was slowing her down.

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"We realized that just because we could talk the language and drink all the tea, it didn't mean that we were going to get the deals, " he says.

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