Sentences with phrase «old small human»

Not exact matches

Small towns and villages simply do not have the financial and human resources to be continually repairing and replacing sewer systems and old pipes.

Within days of the publication of the cretinism paper, investigators led by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg announced that they had discovered small modern human bones ranging in age from 1,400 to 2,900 years old in two caves in Palau, Micronesia.

The 8 - year - old Office of Research Integrity (ORI), a small unit within the Department of Health and Human Services, hopes to support studies aimed at gauging the frequency of misconduct and how to raise ethical standards.

Ray Baughman, Ph.D., took a bundle of nylon fibers about the width of ten strands of human hair and wound them into a long, tight coil, just like an old - fashioned telephone cord but on a much smaller scale.

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»

The main battle centres on the attempts of a small band of researchers to prove that human races are hundreds of thousands of years older than conventional theories would have us believe.

This creature ends up actually being a little person, a 14 year old girl named Arriety (Bridgit Mendler) who lives with her two parents (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler) who are borrowers who are small people who «Borrow things such as soap, cookies, and other small things that humans don't need when they disappear.

When five - thousand - year - old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger, and romance.

Homer, an old dog, observes his small world — and the human goings - on around him — from the comfort of the porch.

«The Flicker of Old Dreams is at once a vivid and wildly compelling study of small town American life and an intimate and incisive exploration of the human condition, from love to loss and beyond.

Dr. SeungWoo Jung, assistant professor and clinician in the Cardiology Services of the Wilford and Kate Bailey Small Animal Teaching Hospital, recently placed one of the most advanced pacemaker systems used in humans in Joe, a seven - year - old bulldog, owned by Wayne and MaryAnn Swift of Meridian, Miss..

If your dog is ten years old, its equivalent age in human years ranges from 56 (small breed) to 78 (giant breed).

I like walks and playing outside, but am still learning this whole family dog business, so I will need a person / family that is willing to work on this with me and probably without small humans running around, the older ones I can handle.

Unplug or securely tape down any electrical cords, and remove any small ingestible or breakable objects — pretend like you are childproofing for a 2 year old human!

For example, a large breed dog at age 10 will be the equivalent of a 66 - year - old man whereas a small breed dog will be the equivalent of a 56 - year - old human.

The equivalent of middle age in humans is approximately 5 years in the average sized dog (30 to 40 lbs); younger in large and giant breeds and slightly older in toy and small breeds.

In addition to his favourite hobby of copying the narrative «action» paintings of Old Masters, he specialized in small - scale detailed works of landscape painting, executed in oils, containing a number of human subjects and typically several features of topographical or other interest, including crowds or military scenes.

With human carbon dioxide production accounting for less than 3 % of the earth's total natural carbon dioxide production it is ludicrous to think any small reduction we might make would be perceptible — Remember going back to the old stone age before mankind had fire (when the climate was warmer than it is now) would result in a less than 3 % reduction in carbon dioxide production.

This is an old story: Rasool and (Steve) Schneider published a paper in Science on that day noting that if human - made aerosols (small particles in the air) increased by a factor of four, other things being equal, they could cause massive global cooling.

«The person's name will be 36 or 72 points, and their phone number will be microscopically small, which is stupid because most people in [human resources (HR)-RSB- are 40 years old or older and won't be able to read it without glasses,» said Shel Horowitz, the author of books on do - it - yourself marketing.