Before I fired my weapon, Eddie McMellon, who (was) slightly closer than I was, started backing out and saying, 'What are you doing? What are you doing?' I just thought he pulled and drew a weapon on my partner -- I fired my weapon.

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Santa Rosa was more pro-South and Petaluma was more pro-North. Many articles in the Sonoma Democrat (now the Press Democrat) during this time speak about preserving the 'white mans government,' and oppose African-Americans' right to vote. Petaluma was more progressive.

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It turns out that early in the origin of many types of animals, there were a lot of branching events in a short period of time.

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I'm saying, 'Police, show me your hands, show me your hands,'.

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I told him, 'Don't die, don't die, keep breathing,'.

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I rubbed his face (and said,) 'Please don't die,'.

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With vacuum fluctuations, we have to distinguish between evidence for the existence of the fluctuations, and for their energy.

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In general, we'd like to know who's related to whom, and the pattern of the branches of the tree of life.

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The mechanisms that make the small differences between species are the same ones that make the big differences between kingdoms.

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