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  • ( "Organism" seems best for something that maintains itself, reproduces at need, and possesses a consciousness in a range from the rudimentary to the transcendent, even though carbon compounds be a very small of its material components and most of its life processes take place directly on the quantum level.)

    Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000

  • Page 6: Over 40% of our national energy consumption comes from homes and offices. reduce, reuse, recycle … RE-THINK your home as an energy saving Eco-Friendly 'Organism' not just an 'Object' NAR's Green REsource Council has teamed up with GREENandSAVE. com, one of America's leading free 'Green' resources for anyone who wants to save money, the environment, and create a healthier home and lifestyle.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2modagents 2009

  • We'll find out what the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing has been up to in June when Marvel debuts a four-part series on their Digital Comics Unlimited site called MODOK: Reign Delay.

    MODOK reigns on web, then in September one-shot | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • This is a real Marvel Comic book set in the "real" Marvel Universe 616 continuity starring Jack Kirby's greatest super villain creation - George Tarleton, the Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing, written and drawn by the creator of such classic sequential masterpieces as "Jap Smasher" and "Diarrhea Dog".

    MODOK reigns on web, then in September one-shot | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Organism initiate purposeful healing and repair juries – to some limited degree.

    An Ode to ID 2009

  • The term (Latin super = above; Greek organon = tool) was coined in 1911 by the great American ant expert and biologist William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937) in an essay titled “The Ant-Colony as an Organism” and is defined as “a collection of single creatures that together possess the functional organization implicit in the formal definition of organism.”

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • There's a reason why Marvel doesn't focus too often on the innermost desires of a Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, but that's why Strange Tales works so well -- aberrant looks at the most popular and the most unfathomable characters in the House of Ideas 'universe.

    Graphic Novel Friday: "Strange Tales" 2010

  • Remember, Whitehead called his philosophy "The Philosophy of Organism."

    David Ray Griffin: IDist 2009

  • When I say factory farming, I mean that most food has significant amounts of synthetic hormones, antibiotics, chemicals, and GMO Genetically Modified Organism ingredients.

    Maria Rodale: How Big, Cheap and Fast Do We Want to Be? Maria Rodale 2010

  • When I say factory farming, I mean that most food has significant amounts of synthetic hormones, antibiotics, chemicals, and GMO Genetically Modified Organism ingredients.

    Maria Rodale: How Big, Cheap and Fast Do We Want to Be? Maria Rodale 2010

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