Sentences with phrase «valuable than walks»

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These «microbursts of activity,» as the researchers called them, were also more valuable than a single 30 - minute walking break.

But I know you have your very good reasons for being among the 98 percent of the population that shuns public transportation: • You can read, check email, send text messages, or catch a few winks while you're swerving into oncoming traffic and pedestrians • You have built - in motivation for stopping at Wendy's for celebration takeout, given that you haven't had to walk more than nine consecutive steps the entire day • You feel good about the copious burning of hydrocarbons, which is creating valuable new beachfront property • You get to trade hand gestures and occasional gunfire with fellow traffic jammers.

Closing costs are «money that would have been better used to support research that ultimately could have continued to combat diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's, rather than shutting down a productive research enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

It doesn't mean teachers get fired or schools close down, but it does mean kids from all walks of life could learn extremely valuable skills in things like computer programming, web design or number of any number of fields that suit their fancy without relying on teachers who correctly spent their time studying education rather than those pursuits.