Tom's heart suddenly began to beat faster.

Tsunamis in slow motion

Heatwave after heatwave

As a result of increased interannual variability of the runoff, above all seasonally, abnormally high water as well as abnormally low water years and seasons are possible.

Below that's the actual heart rate and the trend to the right of that is a bioconductant.

She laid her head on my chest so she could listen to my heartbeat.

Moreover, the frequency and intensity of heat waves, floods, and droughts are on the rise.

The slow recovery from the recession may be even worse.

To demand that Germany should stop increasing its competitiveness, or even reduce it, is simply bizarre.

It's slow. It's antiquated. It's not using the best technology, and it's not using the best people.

Flood victims complained about the slow arrival of aid from the government last August.

The personal aspect of such decisions makes our hearts speed up and our palms sweat.

The drugs doctors had given her to keep her heart pumping were slowly petering out and leaving her system.

The connection has been so slow that I could not access a majority of the sites.

By contrast this has been a uniquely slow recovery from what was the worst recession in the sample period.

In the eurozone s member countries, only fiscal policy is possible at the national level, because the European Central Bank controls monetary policy. So, yes, more immediate growth does require slower reduction in fiscal deficits.

So, yes, more immediate growth does require slower reduction in fiscal deficits.

Some know who do this to them but can't do anything to stop their bodies from being slowly eaten by the filth.

Additionally, the slow, heavy, and sludgy style of the Melvins was a significant influence on the grunge sound.

The six months prior to Lehman saw a slow freezing up of global credit and incipient recessions in the US and Europe. nbsp

By provoking the regime, the students derailed any chance of slow political reform, which their more moderate elders had carefully set in train.

Slow job creation and income growth may continue to fuel the populist backlash against austerity and reform.

But when they spotted a tail veer predominantly to the left (again from the tail swishing dog's point of view), their heart rates picked up and they looked anxious.

Better to let the Americans do it, though of course these Shi a leaders prefer a slow strangulation of al Sadr to a direct and bloody assault.

True, as a new institution it has had to establish its credibility, but the result is a smaller, slower decrease in interest rates.

But slow and distorted development in the Islamic world is the result of blocked opportunities as well. Wouldn't Pakistan be much better off if it exported more of its textiles to the rich industrial world?

Epidemics caused by fat are now manifest Type 2 diabetes, increased rates of heart and cardiovascular disease, and notably more cancers, such as breast cancer.

The slow buy in so far of Arab states to Obama s campaign attests to the nervousness that many of them feel on all of these grounds.

The surface of Venus is effectively isothermal it retains a constant temperature not only between day and night but between the equator and the poles.

The bottom line is that regulatory policies in developing countries, particularly countries in Africa, often bear much of the responsibility for low Internet penetration and slow adoption of technology.

There were many serious heatwaves that happened in 2015, but few as intense as in the Middle East in July and August.

As with the slow, sure movement of the earth s plates, this deep, broad, underlying transformation is manifesting itself in local, destructive eruptions.

Such actions undermine the slow renovation of transatlantic trust since Edward Snowden s revelations concerning the extent of American surveillance of European governments and citizens alike.

But now its policymakers must deal with the triple challenges of the unfolding European debt crisis, slow recovery in the United States, and a secular growth slowdown in China s economy.

Government at both the federal and state levels was invariably regarded as slow, indecisive, corrupt, unimaginative, and shortsighted in general, worthless.

Reports since November 2016 have led many to believe this slow, quiet, and limited unfiltering of Twitter has led to an increase in Twitter users from inside Iran.

Since then, China has added to the strains by continuing to manipulate the value of the renminbi, maintaining an abnormally high trade surplus, and restricting goods manufactured by foreign companies in China from entering the domestic market.

When the current abnormally low interest rates on long term bonds rise over the next few years, it will become more attractive for producers to increase the supply of oil and invest the resulting income at the higher rate.

There also may be serious direct consequences for human health if climate change is not checked, particularly increased morbidity and mortality as a result of heat waves, floods, and droughts.

As long as imbalances of world trade and capital flows unwind slowly and smoothly, the magnitude of any global economic distress should be relatively small.

Two years ago here at TED I reported that we had discovered at Saturn, with the Cassini Spacecraft, an anomalously warm and geologically active region at the southern tip of the small Saturnine moon Enceladus, seen here.

Institution building is painful and laborious ( a slow boring of hard boards, as Max Weber called it), as evidenced in the recurrent crises faced by African countries from Nigeria to Botswana.

Where most forecasters and policy officials saw green shoots and reasons for confidence, I saw strong headwinds that would cause an economic downturn and then a subpar recovery.

In the GISS model's simulation, Venus' slow spin exposes its dayside to the sun for almost two months at a time, GISS scientist Anthony Del Genio explained in a news release.

Yet big and small alike must realize that their current disposition implies the slow suffocation of Europe's most exciting and successful experiment in bringing peace and prosperity to the old continent. To save it, the bigger ones will indeed have to take the lead.