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  • The camera tracks backwards and a slender impression in the dirt becomes a snaking chasm, cutting through the distance like a rip in the earth's skin.

    Some Will Leave Sally Houtman 2012

  • Purely from the science point of view, because she understood quite analytically how destructive emissions were, how depleting of fossil fuels the automobile industry was, how disruptive of who-knew-what tender ecological balance all that drilling must be wreaking beneath the earth's crust.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

  • Some data supports longevity, you know, some kind of desert in that region for a very, very long time, just due to patterns in circulation, essentially, that would've been relatively stable over most of earth's - you know, recent earth history.

    New Species Of Extinct Giant Penguin Discovered 2010

  • And that 99.9 percent of the earth's population (that is, the percentage of people that are petrified by public speaking) are depriving themselves of what is, in reality, a powerful instant -- a divine drop of distilled life?

    Milestones 2009

  • Some data supports longevity, you know, some kind of desert in that region for a very, very long time, just due to patterns in circulation, essentially, that would've been relatively stable over most of earth's - you know, recent earth history.

    New Species Of Extinct Giant Penguin Discovered 2010

  • Some data supports longevity, you know, some kind of desert in that region for a very, very long time, just due to patterns in circulation, essentially, that would've been relatively stable over most of earth's - you know, recent earth history.

    New Species Of Extinct Giant Penguin Discovered 2010

  • Just as geologists cannot decipher the earth's features without plate tectonics, and physicists cannot understand the interaction of light and matter without quantum electrodynamics, biologists cannot explain the diversity of life on earth without evolution.

    Steven Newton: Evolution, Creationism, and the 'Cautious 60 Percent' Steven Newton 2011

  • Just as geologists cannot decipher the earth's features without plate tectonics, and physicists cannot understand the interaction of light and matter without quantum electrodynamics, biologists cannot explain the diversity of life on earth without evolution.

    Steven Newton: Evolution, Creationism, and the 'Cautious 60 Percent' Steven Newton 2011

  • Some data supports longevity, you know, some kind of desert in that region for a very, very long time, just due to patterns in circulation, essentially, that would've been relatively stable over most of earth's - you know, recent earth history.

    New Species Of Extinct Giant Penguin Discovered 2010

  • And that 99.9 percent of the earth's population (that is, the percentage of people that are petrified by public speaking) are depriving themselves of what is, in reality, a powerful instant -- a divine drop of distilled life?

    Public Speaking 2009

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