It's a very evolutionarily hard-wired response that comes from a primitive need to respond very quickly.
The revised constitution allows the introduction of a market economy, although at a primitive level.
They had to work in a primitive kitchen darkened by the absence of reliable electricity.
Bargmann of Rockefeller University studies a primitive worm, C. elegans, which has only 302 neurons in its brain.
This is not to suggest that the Metzger's life is a primitive one.
While a skydiving coach in the 1990s, he rigged up a primitive computer simulation of dives and dive formations.
They hid a primitive computer in their shoes that could predict where a ball would land on a roulette wheel.
He called it ZuckNet, and it was basically a primitive version of AOL Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.
Without Saint-Nazaire, a primitive part of him was deprived of the imaginary care that had kept him sane as a child.
In March 2006 Google acquired Upstartle, a four-person outfit with a primitive way of creating, accessing and sharing documents through a browser.
On Oct. 4, 1957, a primitive, 100-pound metal ball was sent hurtling into orbit around Earth, beeping back radio signals like taunts.
The lights are actually emitted by the larval stage of a primitive fly species, Arachnocampa flava, which is found only in Australia and New Zealand.
Splitting is a primitive psychological defense mechanism used to make difficult people in our lives seem all good, or all bad, as needed.
Which brings us to Myth No. 3: The "social issues" are unwanted artifacts of a primitive religious past that will eventually just fade away.
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He raised lambs and built sheds, fishponds, and even a primitive swimming pool, for his kids and grandkids and the children and grandchildren of his friends.
Its maker, a Dutch alchemist called Cornelius van Drebbel, is thought to have used a primitive oxygen-supply system, based on saltpetre, to prevent the crew from asphyxiating.
From a primitive plant called brassica, laborious trial-and-error genetic modification over centuries created canola, cabbage, bok choi, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, rutabaga, mustard and turnip, among others.
But this latest rendering of the century-old work enacts in alternately crude and generalized ways its story of a primitive society's ritual sacrifice to honor the coming season.
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Why would a burlap-suited guy in a primitive society, thousands of years from now on what used to be Hawaii, visualize the embodiment of pure evil in Victorian fashion?
This is partly the fault of a primitive banking system: there are no cheques, few credit cards, and paying by bank-transfer means an hour or so in a smelly queue.
Recent experience in Afghanistan, for example, has shown how hard it is to operate the basic elements of even a primitive economy in a country which has been torn apart by war.
But just why ancient people created the Nazca Lines has been an enduring mystery: Some archaeologists have suggested it was an alien landing strip, a primitive sun calendar, or an irrigation system.
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And once it hits the Web, the game will take a primitive, but impressive, step into a brave new world where computers will watch and analyze your preferences and habits and reprogram themselves accordingly.
Though the display resembles a primitive computer game in its blockiness, Dexter Turner, the president of Op Technologies, a rival firm that is developing a similar system, points out that this is quite adequate.
From Chiang Mai, visitors spend around four hours in a songtaew, a covered truck with two benches in the back, then two more hours in the back of a 4x4 driving up a primitive road.
F-secure's researchers also report the software used to mimic Barclay's and Halifax's banking sites is a primitive phishing kit from 2004--a sign that Storm's innovative creators are renting out their real estate to less savvy cyber-criminals.
It was a primitive trip with a sophisticated goal: to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects.
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You model objects in Amorphium by starting with a primitive shape such as a sphere or cylinder, or some text, then simply use the mouse to grab the shape and pull, push, or twist it into a new look.
In today's game, in which speed and agility are as highly prized as bulk and brawn, the Welsh strategy of rounding up a bunch of behemoths and squeezing them into red jerseys might appear to be a primitive tactic.
"There are primitive features in the skeleton of floresiensis which for me suggests that it comes from quite a primitive form of human: one that may have been around two million years ago rather than one million years ago".
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