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His hands stretch toward the ledge, but it's out of reach.
Astronomy, with its forever-out-of-reach subject matter, might seem the unlikeliest science to translate for touch.
Garden-worthy plants show up at public gardens long before they reach the nurseries.
In effect, the software determines what path the light in the scene would have taken to reach each pixel.
And the latest version will wake you up when you reach your stop.
All these groups have low nutritional status but reach significantly different average height levels.
Sport can reach the right people, sometimes with remarkable accuracy.
That's why the whole world was trying to reach him for comment.
It is a semi-dwarf and will reach three to four feet tall and wide upon maturity.
They wonder if they can reach out to their communities.
They slept with their bootlaces tied and their guns loaded and their hand grenades within easy reach in their bunks.
At some point we'll reach that limit, and then these record-breaking events will come far less often.
Magnetic semiconductors reach higher temperatures.
PhD in-hand by time of appointment, and demonstrated accomplishment or promise as a regional expert with a global reach.
They can reach deep down below the surface of lakes or in wetlands to grab plants to eat.
He tried to reach it, and jumped into the fountain, where he died.
One factor is to reach out to the students and create a welcoming campus.
Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone.
Throw the gloves out as soon as you reach your destination-but only after donning fresh ones to remove the infected ones.
Adaptive optics can do nothing about light that doesn't reach the optics in the first place.
Before you reach your goals you have to define them.
Increasingly, advertisers are learning how to reach the same people on other websites, for less money.
Each time you answer correctly, you'll reach a new park.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
The outdoor kitchen puts everything within easy reach, with room for three to sit at the counter.
Continue to feed dough through rollers once at each setting, without folding, until you reach narrowest setting.
He believes the cell was underground because one had to descend steps to reach it.
The movie's scale is small, its subjects are intimate, its artistic reach is immense.
The world won't run short of petroleum in the next few decades, but there's a limited supply of easy-to-reach oil.
Such computers would harness the physical properties of quantum bits, or qubits, to expand the reach of computation.
The delivery trucks can reach their destinations in six minutes using the routing schedule outlined below.
Too bad the mortgage crisis, inflation, and joblessness have put that out of reach.
Giraffes' long necks are perfectly suited to harvesting tender leaves beyond the reach of other herbivores.
In two of the experiments, in which the cats had to reach for a toy mouse, the kitties were ambidextrous.
Tomatoes reach the correct pH if you add lemon juice.
They're in their own world, beyond the reach of adults.
He'd reach into the back of his car for the right outfit-maybe a stolen tuxedo, maybe a sports jacket.
They know that by hunting together, they can effectively exploit a source of food that they would never be able to reach.
By the time the costs of right-wing anarchism reach the truly privileged, it will be far too late for everyone else.
In that time, doctors must rely on intuition and pattern recognition-this symptom suggests that ailment-to reach a diagnosis.
Global warming has extended the destructive reach of humankind.
We aimed to reach the arch too-and climb it in his memory.
He quickly suggested putting a hooked stick in each room that could be used to reach up and grab the metal hook on the screen.
Suddenly this idyll is starting to move out of reach.
AA says that she felt about to cry since she was held down and could not reach a condom and felt this could end badly.
They began doing them when they were so little they couldn't reach the sink.
One reason super wi-fi has the potential to reach so far is the low frequency.
Three-dimensional chips can handle data more efficiently because data has to travel less distance to reach a different component.
Six of seven birds tested used the short stick to reach a longer one, which they then used to get their treat.
It's pretty cool: it shows you the places in your city that you can reach in a given amount of time using public transport.
Although their circulation has declined, newspapers still reach large audiences.
Elsewhere in the world, dinosaurs are beginning to reach enormous sizes and to dominate the terrestrial ecosystems.
To reach a newly accessible cove, head down the staircase near the entrance.
Continue to feed dough through rollers once at each setting, without folding, until you reach the second to narrowest setting.
Ration cards, it is announced, will soon be eliminated-a lifelong dream for many that finally seems to lie within reach.
He greeted more visitors after his nap, or took telephone calls, which could reach more than three thousand a month.
World oil production is about to reach a peak and go into its final decline.
The enzyme is only active at high temperatures--higher than those that a plant's cells would reach while it is alive.
Inexpensive galvanized tubs make handy drink coolers to place around the garden within easy reach of thirsty party guests.
With both sides stymied by not being able to directly reach the other, the war went underground.
But if they become confused and head toward lights on a boardwalk or a hotel, they'll be too tired to reach the ocean.
When peas reach harvesting size, pick all pods that are ready.
But these ground-based studies only give information about the limited areas scientists can reach on foot.
After you finally reach the other side of the curtains, you're in a lounge with a tuxedoed host from another era.
One day soon they may reach a state of perfection: impregnable and pointless.
The premise is deceptively simple: the heavier the rocket or its payload, the more fuel it takes to reach orbit.
Some of their research is highly specialized, some trivial, and some in fact of remarkable ambition and interdisciplinary reach.
He bears scars from those times when a project of his failed to reach the public.
The engine can operate for weeks at a time and so reach high velocities.
Foreign students say that because university representatives rarely reach out to them, they rely on each.
Sometimes the branch of the fifth fails to reach the skin.
The elephants already knew how to use a rope to pull a food-bearing table within reach.
The lesson is a good one for fiction writers: stories fueled by intentions never reach their boiling point.
First the airplane sailed by them almost within reach, with some announcer finding things to say.
Commercial space travel is now almost within reach of ordinary citizens.
In this case, the particles always reach some point of equilibrium where the intensity reaches a maximum.
As campus psychologists go online, they reach more students, but may also risk lawsuits.
We offer special discounted rates exclusively for publishers who wish to reach these active readers.
By the time their light might reach us it could be so disperse that it could never be detected.
Her methods work on any kind of evergreen at any size that you can reach with shears.
But they miss plenty, leaving ridiculously easy access to berries you wouldn't otherwise be able to reach.
Most dangerously, for the first time, these accidents and abuses are widely within the reach of individuals or small groups.
And do not tell me that greatness lies out of your reach, because that would mean your soul is out of your reach.
They would allow companies to build interactive or video ads that could reach a wide variety of devices.
Dozens of countries are racing to reach space before their neighbors do.
Freer trade in financial services is once again within reach.
Perhaps they're trying to reach out to today's kids.
The weapon fires bullets with microchips that can be programmed to detonate when they reach a specific distance.
It would take them so long reach a large size that somewhere along the line they would have met their demise.
Learn how ski jumpers reach new heights by training in wind tunnels.
Depending on how you look at things, it has taken humanity a long time to reach this landmark, or practically no time at all.
Nothing can do him any harm, and he's got the whole pharmacopoeia at arm's reach.
He imagined our perceptions to be but a faint inkling of a far richer reality that flickers beyond reach.
The mountain was dangerous to reach, but never quite inaccessible.
Until recently, that meant the area was out of reach.
Rather scarce and expensive because of time required to reach salable size.
He did not reach for the money-he did not know what it was.
It's in the bedroom somewhere, probably within reach on a bedside bureau.
And besides, the arms race between viruses and our genes may mean health is a moving target, one that would be dangerous to reach.
She was so possessed by the character that no one could reach her between takes.
There is no way to reach out and physically measure this third dimension.
Chess requires brilliant thinking, supposedly the one feat that would be--forever--beyond the reach of any computer.
Of these, only the muons have enough penetrating power to reach the ground unscathed.
Shelving carved into the wall over the tub keeps bathing supplies tucked away, but within easy reach.
Find the right campground, and even top-dollar destinations are within reach.
She deliberately sought, and got, the widest possible reach.
Open shelves put dishware and utensils you use every day within easy reach.
Add drops of food coloring to reach desired shade and mix at low speed until evenly combined.
It's a way to be visible, to escape the fleetingness of performance, and to reach people who will never hear you in concert.
The volume of water at a given time in the channel or over the flood plain of the streams in a drainage basin or river reach.
Neutrino-based messages could reach recipients before they were sent.
It seems that something so beautiful shouldn't be this easy to reach.
Advertisers believe that about half of all traditional advertising does not reach the right audience.
When giant stars reach the final stages of their lives they often detonate in cataclysms known as supernovae.
Show giraffe trying in vain to reach a piece of fruit high on a tree branch.
It now seems sad and even tragic, the reach for automation by these working pilots, their button-pushing response.
Because a fair amount of mind wandering happens without our ever noticing, the solutions it lets us reach may come as a surprise.
To that end, they have tried to reach understandings with various political groups.
Many jobless people, he realized, cannot afford a car to reach a job site.
Sometimes gazelles can zig and zag out of reach and outlast their often short-winded pursuers.
Counting butterflies could be a good way to reach this goal.
The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it.
In fact, the team found that the off-line neural activity was highly predictive of the speed of each reach.
The day of days comes, the reach boat is pulled out of the tide.
At the peak of the boom both the value of the collateral and the degree of leverage reach a peak.
She can see a piece of food through a hole in a plastic box, but she cannot reach it.
When the coating cracks, the cracks spread downward and reach the underlying channels, which ooze out healing agent.
The control rods absorb neutrons before they can reach the uranium.
The parts lists and instructions are within easy reach.
He dips into a tele turn and screams past me on the opposite reach.
Begin feeding with liquid fertilizer a week or two after plants reach the two-leaf stage.
But that changes when they reach about four years of age, the researchers found in their new study.
They drove their parents' cars in the evening, their seats pushed back and their arms stretched out to reach the steering wheel.
Location-based smart-phone advertising is seen as a potentially valuable way to reach new customers.
Launching a radio station is a cheaper way of increasing reach than launching a television channel, but it is still not cheap.
Repeat, layering bunches until you reach the cord's end.
When hormones, neurotransmitters or chemical attractors reach a cell, they dock to and activate a membrane-spanning receptor.
Find out what causes them and why they turn into a deadly wall of water when they reach the shore.
They reach back to the earliest days of the medium, yet sponsored films are a mystery to many.
With the added weight of people and supplies, it would simply take too long for the craft to reach acceleration speed.
But this year, our annual remembrances reach beyond our own experiences.
So reach for spices and herbs to help prevent aging.
Thanks to dark energy, even the nearby galaxies will begin to recede from us faster than light, and no news of them will reach us.
Anything that is digital, from software to music, can reach a much broader global audience.
Train larger trees to a modified central leader to keep fruit within easy reach.
Reach thousands of attendees at relevant academic conferences at no additional cost.
He explains that he wants to inspire kids to dream their dreams and reach their own goals.
Others reach sizes shocking to those who are only familiar with common tree squirrels.
Make sure you can move a ladder around the perimeter and reach the ceiling.
We reach the rows of kale, green in a world of white and muted browns.
There is nothing else in the room-except a bare light bulb on the ceiling, well out of reach.

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