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Perhaps single parents just have a more realistic attitude to what is an appropriate amount of medical attention? — pentapod
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Thus, I'm building a pentapod -- the people's robot. thingiverse.
robots.net 2009
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Thus, I'm building a pentapod -- the people's robot. thingiverse.
robots.net 2009
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Thus, I'm building a pentapod -- the people's robot. thingiverse.
robots.net 2009
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Link pentapod — I wouldn’t judge California’s environmental record by what happens in San Diego. —
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Blustering and threatening to sue the government on this one issue is just a great way of looking as if he’s concerned about the environment and looking as if he’s trying to do something, while in reality he’s simply distracting attention from the fact that many simple and obvious things that should have been done, and could be done without getting into an argument with federal policy, remain neglected and ignored. — pentapod
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Link pentapod, I’m actually a little surprised that where you live in San Diego doesn’t have easy access to recycling.
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And reducing oil imports would only improve our security. pentapod: “I’m amazed at how little is actually done for the environment.”
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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When the animal opens, the arms at first separate without bending outside, so that the whole looks like an inverted pentapod; but gradually the tips of the arms bend outward as the arms diverge more and more, and when fully expanded the crown has the appearance of a lily of the L. martagon type, in which each petal is curved upon itself, the pinnules of the arms spreading laterally more and more, as the crown is more fully open.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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When the animal opens, the arms at first separate without bending outside, so that the whole looks like an inverted pentapod; but gradually the tips of the arms bend outward as the arms diverge more and more, and when fully expanded the crown has the appearance of a lily of the L. martagon type, in which each petal is curved upon itself, the pinnules of the arms spreading laterally more and more, as the crown is more fully open.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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