We know the shape of things, perhaps, but not where the forests or streams or people lurking within are.

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Image Credit: MORFAE the shape of things: architecture, design, interior, art, style.

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Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy.

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Economic theory suggests that the future price is simply traders' best guess of the shape of things to come.

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Not even the site that wants to let anyone make anything can predict the shape of things to come.

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Neither scientists nor indigenous knowledge holders know the shape of things to come.

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So the shape of things to come became a U. Asia will stay down for a spell and then slowly climb up again.

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You can read more about the study here, but perhaps its real power comes as a demonstration of the shape of things to come.

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To test their theory, the two researchers first needed to find ecological equivalents of the differentiation-triggering chemicals: two things whose relative concentrations affect the shape of patches of vegetation and which like both to spread and to transmute into one another.

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Which is why Mr Robinson and others believe that the picosats currently in orbit around the earth will be the shape, and size, of things to come.

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One of the neat things about the project is that the crowd of investors can watch as the game takes shape, and see where their money is going.

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"For example, one of the very hard things about teaching chemistry is explaining that molecules have shape, " King said.

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