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“Although there is no medical procedure named a ‘Partial Birth Abortion’, I wholeheartedly support banning it because it might eliminate the medical procedure commonly called Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) and force women to have abortions by induction or surgical removal through abdominal surgery.
Rudy: I Back Partial Birth Ban, Even Though I Didn't Before I Ran For Prez 2009
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This alteration in subjective temporal experience is produced by something physicists call the "Mind Dilation Effect," in which time appears to be moving more slowly as the flow of bullsh*t approaches the speed of light.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bachmann/Ryan Overdrive: A High-Speed Escape From Economic Reality RJ 2011
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This alteration in subjective temporal experience is produced by something physicists call the "Mind Dilation Effect," in which time appears to be moving more slowly as the flow of bullsh*t approaches the speed of light.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bachmann/Ryan Overdrive: A High-Speed Escape From Economic Reality RJ 2011
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Einstein calls this Time Dilation or the observer's perception of time.
What Einstein didn't say Roberto C. Garcia 2011
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This alteration in subjective temporal experience is produced by something physicists call the "Mind Dilation Effect," in which time appears to be moving more slowly as the flow of bullsh*t approaches the speed of light.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bachmann/Ryan Overdrive: A High-Speed Escape From Economic Reality RJ 2011
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Silvestre, D. A. Judelson, E. E. Quann, C. E. Forsythe, et al., “Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction versus Low-Fat Diet on Flow-Mediated Dilation,” Metabolism 58 2009, 1769–1777.
THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010
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Dilation increases with each phase of this stage, until your cervix is about 10 centimeters in diameter.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Dilation increases with each phase of this stage, until your cervix is about 10 centimeters in diameter.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Other material starts with: Dilation Sleep [Revelation Space] (1990) - Alastair Reynolds.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Space Heroes A Brief History Blue Tyson 2008
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"Dilation Sleep" is the earliest story written in the Revelation Space universe and correspondingly shows the some initial unsteadiness of universe and perhaps the writer as well.
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