Shirley set up an event for everyone to take a boat tour. Jane felt nervous about being on a boat but didn’t say anything because she didn’t want to make waves.
Consider the implications of buying plant and animal products. Find out if they're rare or endangered, taken from the wild, and if the trade is approved of by local authorities.
Some urban planners still believe that the best way to ease traffic congestion is to build more roads, especially roads that can take drivers around or over crowded city streets.
Krashen cites the case of Lomb Kato, a Hungarian interpreter who could speak 16 languages. Lomb felt she had no special talent for languages: she had taken classes in Chinese and Polish, but the others she taught herself.
Herinda argues that maintaining this ability would take resources from other activities. But others see no reason why people should not be able to learn a huge number of languages.
In the discussion that followed Hudson's publication of N's claims, a reader disputed the Mezzofanti story, saying he found it absolutely preposterous, and pointing out how long it would take to learn 72 languages.
In some cases, physicians request that pictures be taken both before and after the contrast material enters the patient's body. Patients who receive contrast material in the arm often report feeling a warm sensation.
Inside the donut-shaped machine, a number of X rays are taken, each producing a small slice of the image that doctors need. When passing through dense tissue such as bone, the beams are weak and appear white in the CT images.
All night, every time you breathe out, carbon atoms take off into the night air. Each carbon atom weighs a tiny fraction of a gram. But every breath expels roughly ten billion trillion atoms, so you wake up a pound lighter.
All night, every time you breathe out, carbon atoms take off into the night air. Each carbon atom weighs a tiny fraction of a gram. But every breath expels roughly ten billion trillion atoms, so you wake up a pound lighter.
Another way to gather information would be to transport a vessel to and from the planet. The technology exists to do this, but at 20 light years from the Earth, it would take 200 years for astronomers to receive the result.