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retrovirus
retrovirus type of RNA virus that, unlike other RNA viruses, reproduces by transcribing itself into DNA. An enzyme called reverse transcriptase allows a retrovirus's RNA to act as the template for this RNA-to-DNA transcription. The resultant DNA inserts itself into a cell's DNA and is reproduced... Read more |
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phoenix
phoenix fabulous bird that periodically regenerated itself, used in literature as a symbol of death and resurrection. According to legend, the phoenix lived in Arabia; when it reached the end of its life (500 years), it burned itself on a pyre of flames, and from the ashes a new phoenix arose. As a... Read more |
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Waino Aaltonen
Aaltonen, Wäinö (1894–1966). Finnish sculptor, born at Marttila, near Turku, the son of a village tailor. He became deaf in childhood and took up art as a way of overcoming his disability, studying painting at the School of Drawing of the Turku Art Association, 1910–15, and... Read more |
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Embodiment
Embodiment What concept of embodiment —of the bodily becoming of life itself and of any life-form—emerges in the interstices of religion and science? All religions minister to the vulnerabilities and passions of the body, lending meaning to mortality through practices of ritual,... Read more |
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Bobbio
Bobbio , town, in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy. It is a commercial center and a summer resort. St. Columban founded a monastery there in 612, and during the 9th-12th cent. it was a center of European cultural life. The monastery later declined, and the invaluable manuscripts of its great... Read more |
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Leisure
LeisureDefinition of leisureThe sociology of leisureBIBLIOGRAPHYSome authors hold that leisure has existed in all civilizations at all periods. This is not the view that will be taken in this article. Time-out is of course as venerable an institution as work itself. But leisure has certain traits... Read more |
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Digestion
DIGESTION CONCEPT Digestion is the process whereby the foods we eat pass through our bodies and are directed toward the purposes of either providing the body with energy or building new cellular material, such as fat or muscle. The parts of food that the body cannot use,... Read more |
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Drowning
drowning Drowning has always enjoyed mythic power. The Deluge, the sinking of the Titanic, and the drowning of Virginie in J. St Pierre's eighteenth-century bestseller Paul et Virginie (1788), are just some of the memorable drownings that carry with them arresting images of mankind's relation with... Read more |
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Necrotizing enterocolitis
Necrotizing enterocolitis Definition Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious bacterial infection in the intestine, primarily affecting sick or premature newborn infants. It can cause the death (necrosis) of intestinal tissue and progress to blood poisoning... Read more |
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Equal protection
EQUAL PROTECTION The constitutional guarantee that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws that is enjoyed by other persons or other classes in like circumstances in their lives, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence... Read more |
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focus
focus • noun 1. schools are a focus of community life synonyms: center, focal point, central point, center...concentrate on, center on, zero in on, zoom in on; address itself to, pay attention to, pinpoint, revolve around, have as... |
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lonely
...desolate, forlorn, cheerless, down, blue.antonym: popular. 2. the lonely life of a writer synonyms: solitary, unaccompanied, lone, by oneself/itself, companionless.antonym: sociable. 3. a lonely road synonyms: deserted, uninhabited... |
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opinion
...affected by your personal feelings or biases (his views on life were essentially optimistic), while a sentiment is a more...religious beliefs; his belief in the power of the body to heal itself). A conviction is a firmly-held and unshakable belief whose... |
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origin
origin • noun 1. the origin of life synonyms: beginning, start, commencement, origination, genesis...often applies to causes that were in operation before the thing itself was brought into being. Source, on the other hand, applies to... |
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sensuous
...appetites or gratification of the senses as an end in itself (he leads a life of sensual excess). Luxurious implies indulgence...the pleasures of eating and drinking (the epicurean life of a king and his courtiers). To be voluptuous is... |
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Blackness-In-Itself and Blackness-For-Itself: Frantz Fanon's Program for...
...take on the in-itself and for-itself owes a debt to Hegel (1975...conceptualization of thought-in-itself and thoughtfor- itself. For Hegel, thought is the instrument...the "highest and most inward life" of the mind (Hegel 1975:15... |
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Complexity theory applied to itself
...and test the new language itself. Piecemeal hints at applying complexity theory to itself appear in the literature...apply complexity theory to itself. As these are just early...maybe even the origin of life? Yet it is natural to be... |
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The ANC must save it from itself.
...scorned, has become a way of life. Doing business with the government...is time that the ANC cleansed itself of fake ANC members, or those...argue, that the ANC cleansed itself and perhaps decided to become...party was built. The ANC got itself into this mess and it must navigate... |
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NBC horror series 'Fear Itself' features individual stories directed by genre...
...an upcoming episode of "Fear Itself" called "Community." The story...Mad Men," the lure of "Fear Itself" was, well, fear itself. "I love walking around being...horror fan _ who fights for her life inside a remote police station... |
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NBC launches horror anthology series 'Fear Itself'
...an upcoming episode of "Fear Itself" called "Community." The story...Mad Men," the lure of "Fear Itself" was, well, fear itself. "I love walking around being...horror fan -- who fights for her life inside a remote police station... |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA REMAKING ITSELF ON INTERNET.(MAIN)
...three centuries, Britannica was itself doomed by the Age of Information...Christmas week gaves no sense of a life and death struggle here in the...may have been late in molding itself to the computer age, but it...Britannica afloat if it did not adapt itself to the World Wide Web. The... |
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IT'S ALL ABOUT 'THE THING ITSELF'.(Editorial)(Column)
...Karzai. That is "the thing itself." The main reason our Iraq...their own guns and their own lives, taking on both al-Qaida...extremists. That is the thing itself, and right now I'm not seeing...avoid looking at "the thing itself" is with our banks. What we... |
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History doesn't repeat itself, people repeat what has worked in history.(News)
...that "history has repeated itself." People read such analogies...events, people get on with their lives. Normally, such news stories...repeat it. The "history repeats itself" tactic has always struck me...living thing that can divide itself or be cloned or planted. It... |
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Poem Under No Illusions of Itself as an Olive Branch.(Poem)
...tombstone in order to characterize itself as a poem of witness. All it's ever wanted was to pick itself up by the bootstraps of its...picking a fight with the dull life of its reality. It never asked...for lost causes larger than itself. It's more like an adolescent... |
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ECRI rebrands itself to reflect its reach and roots: key executive: but it's...
...This year, ECRI rebranded itself again, retaining the popular...find it necessary to rebrand itself as ECRI Institute? ROTHMAN...How does ECRI differentiate itself from what it considers the competition...and profoundly affect the lives of the patients you serve... |
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