John W. Thompson

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.

American Businessman

Elizabeth Blackburn

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

Australian Scientist

Myron Scholes

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

Canadian Economist

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Leader

Christiaan Barnard

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

South African Scientist

Gong Hyo-jin

I sometimes feel like my life is getting shortened. However, I forget about all of the hard time when viewers show a lot of love.

South Korean Actress

Eduardo Galeano

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Uruguayan Journalist

Bernard Hopkins

The worst damage a person - a fighter or even a person that's just everyday living - is shorten your life by your lifestyle.

American Athlete

S. Jay Olshansky

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

American Scientist

Anthony Bennett

My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.

Canadian Athlete

Used when physically making an object shorter.

Physical Alteration

Refers to decreasing the duration of an event or action.

Time Reducing

Shortening something doesn't necessarily imply a negative outcome.

Not Always Negative

Often describes natural and gradual changes, like in seasons.

Natural Processes

Used when the process of shortening occurs without direct control.

Involuntary Action

May describe perceived changes in time or experiences.

Personal Perception

Used to describe a particular baking technique exclusive to cooking.

Cooking Specific

Refers to changing dough to a desired crumbly or flaky texture.

Change in Texture

Different fats (butter, shortening, lard) affect how the dough shortens.

Type of Fat

 Here are three of the possible offenders. Exhibit Pests and Disease. Most infamous is the varroa mite, a minuscule red pest that not only invades colonies and feeds on bees, but also transfers pathogens that stunt bee growth and shortens their life span.

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 each of which has two protective regions at the extremities called telomeres. Those shorten every time cells replicate. When telomeres become too short, cells stop replicating and die, slowing the body's ability to renew itself.

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 These sequences shorten over time in a process that many believe contributes to cell aging. But bat telomeres shorten much more slowly than their mammalian cousins— granting them lifespans as long as 41 years.

Why bats don't get sick...

 deal with challenging terminology, and handle a multitude of foreign accents. They may resort to acronyms to shorten long names, choose generic terms over specific, or refer to slides and other visual aides.

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 make you more susceptible to infections, and slow the rate you heal. Want to live a long life? You may have to curb your chronic stress. That's because it has even been associated with shortened telomeres,

How stress affects your...

 denial and bad habits can kill you but even if being vague doesn't shorten your life it does prevent you from fully living it one cure for terminal vagueness is trunking track your numbers track your time

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 saw that we said it must be a climber and we predicted what the hand would look like it must be long and curved with a shortened thumb just like all the early Australia but the scenes are and it was

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 in conditions like this could survive for more than a few hours as winter advances and the day's shorten the Sun skims closer to the horizon and eventually drops below it now there will

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 I mean, another way to think about this is, which would you rather have, a kid with obesity, diabetes, shortened lifespan, all the things that go with it,

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 has life-or-death consequences and long-term social repercussions. Twelve the length by which life expectancy is shortened

Shorten

To make something less in length.

Often appears as...

To become less in length.

Often appears as...

In cooking, to make dough flaky or crumbly by adding fat.

Often appears as...

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Physical Alteration

Time Reducing

Not Always Negative

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