Half to three-quarters of the hatched young successfully fledge under most circumstances.

* In the Sitcom " Two and a Half Men " Alan runs a Ponzi scheme in the episode ' That Darn Priest ' in the name of his chiropractor business until Rose finds out and threatens to tell all his investors if he doesn't stop

Their glaciers were huge and covered nearly all the landmarks around Yosemite Valley except Half Dome, Eagle Peak, Sentinel Dome, and the top of El Capitan.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

The Oppidan, founded in 1828, was published once a Half ; it covered all sport in Eton and some professional events as well, but no longer exists.

Half of them were ducal: three ecclesiastical ( the six prelates all ranked above the six secular peers of the realm ) and three temporal, each time above three counts of the same social estate:

Half of all 16-year-olds were employed in 1980 however in 1990, only fewer than one quarter were in workforce.

Half of all PhD students at the UT now come from outside the Netherlands.

With coastal mountains to the west of Hillsborough, it is blocked in the winter from much of the rainfall over Half Moon Bay, and in the summer it is blocked from virtually all the fog of the coast.

North of Conklin Street is all within the Half Hollow Hills Central School District.

The Coventry soon leads to the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and branches off to Birmingham or ( via another stretch of Coventry Canal ) to Coventry and a junction with the Oxford Canal and hence to all the ' Southern Half ' of the English canals.

The album was so successful that it was quickly followed by My Son, the Celebrity, which ended with " Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other ," fragments of song parodies including Robert Burns ' " Comin ' Thro ' the Rye ": " Do not make a stingy sandwich, pile the cold cuts high ;/ Customers should see salami comin ' thru the rye " and " All day, all night Cary Grant ," a takeoff on " Marianne.

A. Milne, who wrote of Half Mile Down " I don't know which I envy you most: all those moral and physical qualities which you have and I lack, or all that wonder of a new world.

Half guineas were produced in all years between 1689 and 1694 with the elephant and castle appearing in 1691 and 1692.

Half of all women experience little to no morning sickness.

Half of all articles in the top political science journals use case studies, for instance.

Half of the crates finally arrived in New York City in December, but all sections were not in Washington, D. C. until late March 1859.

" " 634-5789 " and " Ninety-Nine and A Half ( Won't Do )" were Stax songs in all-but-name, as they were all co-written by Steve Cropper, recorded at Stax, and backed by the Stax house band.

Half of all students receive some kind of private tuition before going to the exam.

Half the members had worked directly on the Manhattan Project and all had been indirectly involved or consulted on the production of the first atomic bomb.

That for the regiments and separate battalions of the New York National Guard: From a wreath Argent and Azure the full rigged ship “ Half Moon ” all Proper.

In a 2010 interview, discussing the legacy of slavery which Franks denounced and described as a " crushing mark on America's soul ", the congressman said, " Half of all black children are aborted.

Rocky's guests include Jack " Legs " Rhinstone ( wearing ladies ' socks on his legs ), " Baby Face Half " Nelson ( whose face is the size of his cigar end ), " Pizza Puss " Lasagna ( whose face looks like the surface of a pizza ), " Pistol Nose " Pringle ( whose nose is shaped like a pistol, and breathes out cigarette smoke ), and " Teeth " Malloy ( whose giant teeth take up all of his face ).

Half of all children develop a disrupted sleep pattern serious enough to warrant physician assistance.

* U. N. report: Half of adults with HIV are women.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from 299 constituencies ( first-past-the-post system ), the other half are elected from the parties ’ Land lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total Bundestag ( if possible ).

Half or more of the trench is filled with " green " ( unfired ) bricks which are stacked in an open lattice pattern to allow airflow.

Half of the species know are in the great diverse Begonia group of Begoniaceae with 2 genera, and 1500 species.

Half of the spots on the 6-6 domino are colored red to make them stand out as the top ranking tiles.

Two comprehensive histories of Engelbart's laboratory and work are in What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff and A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century by Donald Neilson.

Half reactions for a Daniell cell are these:

Half of the country's workers are engaged in farming.

Bogart told her, " Half the world's female population would throw themselves at Frank's feet and here you are flouncing around with guys who wear capes and little ballerina slippers.

Half of the ten members are from Macau, the others from mainland China.

Half wavelength long wires or strips of conducting material, such as chaff, are very reflective but do not direct the scattered energy back toward the source.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

Such triathlons may be described as a full distance triathlon or " Half distance ", but the " Ironman " and " Iron " labels are the official property of the WTC.

" Half " jumps are now allowed.

Half of the patients with the disorder who have cosmetic surgery performed are not pleased with the aesthetic outcome.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

* ( 1890 ) In How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on " Jewtown " are described.

New boys are now admitted only at the start of the Michaelmas Half, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Half of these possibilities, those where the left boundary is even, correspond to the 8 types of DCT ; the other half are the 8 types of DST.

Half the army with the baggage under Hephaestion and Perdiccas, both cavalry commanders, are sent through the Khyber Pass, while Alexander leads the rest, together with his siege train, through the hills to the north.