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  The number of cases ... could grow fourfold over the next 30 years.
                    Caulerpa, a tropical algal plant, ... grows to several feet in length.
                    A growing number of researchers ... claim that P.
                    Examples of this kind ... can be multiplied indefinitely.
                    Predictions  for  how  much  of  a  proton's  spin  comes  from  that  of  its  quarks  ...
                     range from 0-100%.
               •     Such attitudes ... would serve only to reinforce prejudices about P.
                    Investigation reveals … many features that reinforce the analogy.
                    Near  the  sun's  equator,  ...  solar  wind  moves  relatively  slowly,  but  at  higher
                     latitudes, it abruptly speeds up
                    This ... will speed up AI development.
                    The weed Chromolaena odorata ... has spread rapidly in Africa.
                    Many software programs ... allow viruses to spread on any computer.
                    These changes ... are supposed to strengthen Japan's software industry.
               •     VocalTec ... has developed a way of compressing voice into digital data.
                    Having narrowed the field in this way, ... I shall now present a diagram.
                    An alternative to the spiraling costs of P is ... to reduce the need for Q.
                    This ... reduced the population from 3,500 to 1,200.
                    Fluorescent lights ... reduce the potential risk of global warming.
                    The decreasing cost of computation has put this tradition of economics under a
                     sentence of death.
                    The increasing number of P  ... is balanced by Q.
                    The frequency of such incidents ... has been increasing because of P.
                    There is growing interest ... in studying the relations between P and Q.
                    There are growing difficulties ... in converting P into Q.
                    The fast-growing Internet lexicon ... combines pop allusions and metaphor.
               •     P ... increasingly attracts attention/ comes into use.
                  ... becomes increasingly complex/ dangerous/ isolated/ visible.
                    Dogs ... are increasingly being used to detect P.
                    It ... becomes increasingly important to maintain modularity.
                    This  property  ...  may  not  always  be  reducible  to  (a  combination  of)  P.  The
                     project ... seeks the cause of the ozone decrease over midlatitudes.
                    The  marginal  approach  means  looking  at  the  effects  on  other  variables  ...  of
                     small increases or decreases in one important variable.
                    The global increase in cigarette consumption ... has not yet been analyzed.
               •     The hookworm ... retards growth and development in millions of children.
                    The dynamics of plant growth ... may account for the preponderance of P.
                    This improvement ... is leading to reductions in debt-service burdens.
                    There is a link between the atmospheric buildup of methane and ... a shortage of
                     a highly reactive molecule called the hydroxyl radical.
                    New hemorrhagic fever viruses are discovered every year, and ... environmental
                     changes are favoring their spread.
                    Cell crawling ... is involved in the spread of cancer.

               2.7.3. Dimensions and distances


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