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  • Associated Press Freddy Bernal, left, during a campaign stop in Caracas with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, center, and Cilia Flores, right, in 2010.

    U.S. Sanctions Venezuela Officials, Citing Drug Ties José de Córdoba 2011

  • About a half an hour ago I was looking at the miscellaneous natural history pictures that my facebook friend David Cilia had recently uploaded on his page.

    Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009

  • "We are going to continue with our agenda…within the party and the government, with instructions from the president, Comandante Hugo Chávez Frias," Cilia Flores, a PSUV leader and national congresswoman, said on state television.

    Officials Say Chávez Call Shows 'Strength' Ezequiel Minaya 2011

  • About a half an hour ago I was looking at the miscellaneous natural history pictures that my facebook friend David Cilia had recently uploaded on his page.

    I am talking about group sex...by snails AYDIN 2009

  • "Cilia-of-Gold [Xeelee]" by Stephen Baxter [1994 novelette]

    REVIEW: The Good New Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois 2006

  • Cilia and flagella revealed: from flagellar assembly in Chlamydomonas to human obesity disorders.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Cilia and flagella are not only stupendously complex systems in their own right, but they have complicated systems dedicated to their construction, and genetic control systems coordinating that construction, whose intricacy science is only now beginning to appreciate.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • I thought I got Behe pretty good in Of Cilia and Silliness, but this really takes the cake.

    ERV & HIV versus Behe. Behe loses. - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • [3663] Udalricus, Earl of Cilia, upbraided John Huniades with the baseness of his birth, but he replied, in te Ciliensis comitatus turpiter extinguitur, in me gloriose Bistricensis exoritur, thine earldom is consumed with riot, mine begins with honour and renown.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cilia are used to locomote in some dispersal stages of the life cycle but adults are parasites they only need to move in the digestive tract of their host.

    Platyhelminthes 2007

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