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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake. Sally Phillips
Cake Pretending First Bit Ate Small Weight Put True First Child Also Got Lot Child Did Just Gained Pregnant Really Nearly
I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at. Sam Altman
Time Good People Think Thinking Enough Enough Time Spend About Like Nearly
We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do. Sam Kean
Grateful People Be Grateful Understanding Research Details About Allow Participate Because Brain Themselves Really Certain Should Who Published Nearly
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table. Sam Kean
Daily Natural Light Atoms Single Every Our Table All-Around Atom Given Small Obscure Weighty Almost Over Periodic Around How Least Years Common Against Them Us Certain Body Your Your Body Many Element Lives Daily Lives Nearly Humans Incorporate
I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly. Sam Trammell
Good Enough Way League Math Very Quickly Realized Nearly Thing
Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis. Sarah Parcak
Change Benefits Weather Field Every Think Analysis Benefit Melting Detect Could Ecosystem Track Sheet Scientific Scientists Diseases Goes List Ice Use Show Satellite Map Satellites Nearly Imagery
Walter Mosley was not the first black crime writer, nor was he the first to fuse genre conventions with larger social concerns. But when 'Devil in a Blue Dress' introduced the Los Angeles-based private detective Easy Rawlins nearly 20 years ago, it was clear the author set out to stretch the boundaries of the mystery and thriller framework. Sarah Weinman
Crime Black First Devil Framework Fuse Out Introduced Easy Detective Dress Thriller Mystery Writer He Clear Boundaries Genre Concerns Los Private Nor Years Years Ago Author Blue Conventions Social Larger Nearly Set Stretch
Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost. Scott Brown
Work Whatever Congress President Focused Out Cost Ten Through Takes Still American Bill Nearly
During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go home; by third grade, stomachaches had replaced the headaches, but my daily trudge to the infirmary remained the same. Scott Stossel
Home Daily School First Every Sick Nurse Months Spent Remained Had Headaches First Grade Go Go Home Replaced Begging Office Grade Same Afternoon Nearly Third
Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well. Sean Waltman
You Creative Money Spend Highly Well Underrated Satisfaction Nearly
My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there. Sebastian Roche
Life Christmas Nice Too Summers Spent Paris Environment Also Fairly Comfortable Because Idyllic Very Suburbs Grandparents Dad Lived Nearly Raised Britain
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity. Sendhil Mullainathan
Time Memory Mistake People Control Busy Every Assume Resource Resources Scarce Only Also Executive Make Call Course Bandwidth Same Short Psychologists Which Mean Them Working Use Activity Nearly Basic Cognitive
Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film. Seph Lawless
Technology Police Denial Nothing Everyone More Misconduct New Readily Equipped Caught Camera Nothing New Incidents Capture Film Now Nearly
I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous. Serena Williams
Love Nervous Easier More Tennis Because Than Get Nearly Actually Designing
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention. Seth Berkley
Other Intervention Our Par Rate Higher Investments Development Return Educating Yield Than Any Children Nearly
In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more will turn out to be other-worldly orbs. Seth Shostak
Space Will Three Scent Additional Out Launch Thousand Percent Objects More Since New Also Caught Years Up Confirmed Which Turn Planets Nearly Four
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond. Seth Shostak
Time Intelligence Our Unless Bit Machinery Says Out Cosmic Percent More Only Instance Beyond Existed Brain Than Just Just A Little Bit Which Little Little Bit Sapiens Nearly Level Homo Homo Sapiens Humans Last
Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere. Seth Shostak
You Universe Too Incredibly Everywhere Find Something Hydrogen Abundant Oxygen Nearly
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there's still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard. Seth Shostak
Own Biology Back Despite Our Possibly Atmosphere Martian Points Long-Standing Puzzling Over Yard Still Exhibit Years Years Ago Unequivocally Controversy Experiments Nearly Gas Suggestions
When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on the basement workbench was not just a personal passion - a lot of young people were doing the same. The magazine expired in 1999 for lack of interest. Seth Shostak
People School Passion Young Hi-Fi High Magazine Some High School Doing Were Lot Up Subscribed Personal Same Lack Graduated Just Interest Expired Young People Radio Popular Electronics Basement Nearly Amplifier
I believe the term 'head coach' has been misunderstood, though not by Slavisa nor nearly every one of the other candidates we interviewed. Slavisa avidly embraces the concept of head coach, which is to be on the pitch, training, organising, planning, and everything that comes in preparing for and leading the Club on match day. Shahid Khan
Day Training Club Believe Every Other Everything Though Has-Been Embraces Head Head Coach Leading Term Concept Match Misunderstood Been Nor Pitch Candidates Which Coach Planning Avidly Preparing Nearly
Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around. Shawn Amos
Future People Made Recording Group Other Corrected More Open Over Like Academy Arms Industry Course Around Still Years Than Any Done Nearly
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Shelby Foote
Writing Everybody Way Find Poetry Writers Heard Hand Began Trying Quite Usual Ever Nearly
The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring. Sher Valenzuela
Cite Jobs Responsible Obama Administration Obama Administration Percent Small Uncertainty Small Businesses Fact Hiring Owners Lack In Fact Create Regulatory Businesses Helping Nearly
I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to. Sherilyn Fenn
Back Like Get Michigan Much Nearly
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. Sherwood Boehlert
Beer Wine Year Increase Triple Spirits Percent Percent Increase Segment Volume Beverage Industry Craft Experienced Straight Growing Nearly Growth Fastest Second
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