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  • And then, like a heat-seeking missile, I could head for the one most readily available.

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Bathrooms And Breast Cancer: A Chronicle Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • And then, like a heat-seeking missile, I could head for the one most readily available.

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Bathrooms And Breast Cancer: A Chronicle Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • It is aimed, like a heat-seeking missile, against the entire intellectual framework of "choice."

    The War Against Girls Jonathan V. Last 2011

  • Well, I didn't know that your precious $20,000 double - barreled, laser-guided, heat-seeking shotgun wouldn't float!

    Joke Contest. Anybody in? 2009

  • Imagine a lure that homes in on a fish's mouth like a heat-seeking missile and hooks itself in place.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2010

  • Kate clung to Thomas like a heat-seeking missile: She wanted to be wherever he was.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • I seems clear to me that the genomes of living organisms, the sensory/nervous/motor systems of animals, and the electronic control systems of some technological devices (such as heat-seeking missiles) all qualify as genuine telelogical agents vis-a-vis the four criteria listed above.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • Allen: I seems clear to me that the genomes of living organisms, the sensory/nervous/motor systems of animals, and the electronic control systems of some technological devices (such as heat-seeking missiles) all qualify as genuine telelogical agents vis-a-vis the four criteria listed above.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • • Apache helicopters are not equipped with heat-seeking missiles as we stated in the text of a story and an accompanying picture caption about their deployment in Libya.

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • Well, I didn't know that your precious $20,000 double - barreled, laser-guided, heat-seeking shotgun wouldn't float!

    Joke Contest. Anybody in? 2009

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