More recently, Fountains of Wayne's "I Want an Alien for Christmas" and Saint Etienne and Tim Burgess' "I was born on Christmas Day" (Saint Etienne being seasonal serial offenders having also covered Billy Fury's "My Christmas Prayer") are perhaps the best options for alternative ears.
Perhaps the most famous effort in the hunt for alien life is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti), once funded in part by US space agency Nasa, which continues to listen to and look around the cosmos for signs of intelligent civilisations elsewhere.
While mobile traffic has accelerated substantially, it still remains a relatively alien space for Akamai.
That's an alien concept for most people that come out of our education system.
Along with now-departed Rick Perry, he introduced the Republican Party voters to the alien (for them, anyway) concept of economic populism.
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Most farmers will have to sow alien beans for a season at least, and they may get lower prices for the result.
The judge also rejected the argument that the prohibition on an alien standing for election to the Chief Pleas was a breach of EC law.
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors -- or DREAM -- Act, would create a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children under the age of 16 and have lived in the United States for at least five years, obtained a high school or General Education Development diploma, and demonstrated "good moral character, " the White House said.
Meanwhile, Scott is in postproduction on "Prometheus, " a sort-of prequel to his classic 1979 "Alien, " for Fox.
The acronym stands for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors.
Web sites abound for alien-seekers: people trying to prove there is life on other planets or that entities from other planets have visited Earth.
After the failure of the Congress to pass the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, it has been a welcome, if limited, relief.
It is not yet known if it is male or female, but names being suggested included Snowy, Frosty and Alf - related to the TV character which stands for Alien Life Form.
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), a legal means of providing paperless illegal-immigrant youth access to higher education and financial aid, was signed into California law in October 2011.
SETI's search for intelligent life in outer space may be on ice for the time being, but the search for alien planets that may possibly support life of some sort is now being bolstered by a number of new efforts.
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He discussed immigration and education when I asked him about the Dream Act, an acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, which has been before Congress since 2001 and was most recently blocked by a Senate filibuster in December 2010.
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Scientists at Penn State just kicked off a two-year search for massive alien solar power stations known as Dyson Spheres.
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Co-written by Xiu and director Hanawa Yukinari, the film suffers an occasional lapse in continuity, but is fascinating both for its evenhanded look at life among Tokyo's alien population, as well as for its attempts to capture visually the rhythm of the city without endings.
Most of the time you were fighting random alien creatures or mercenaries working for an absent character that only appeared a few time.
The Supreme Court has previously held that alien combatants may be detained for the duration of hostilities even if they are American citizens.
These salon shoes, however, look practically quaint when compared to Iris van Herpen's snub-nosed bondage booty or Mr. Tatehana's aerodynamic platforms, which have no heel at all and look like slippers for a space alien.
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An alien bug that causes diarrhoea, for instance, is as much an enemy of the microbiome as of the host.
The owner of a New York toy store says he is thinking of buying Megatron Transformers alien action figures directly from Japan for the first time in three years.
The cultural arguments for avoiding diversification militate against getting into totally alien markets like retailing or real estate, but how much difference is there really between building planes and ships for the government and building them for a big company like Maersk?
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None of the alien planets detected so far appear suitable for conventional carbon-based life as known on Earth.
This same editor organized a poker club and excluded a Pakistan-born intern for whom poker was culturally alien.
And for a carbon-Nomex, alien-tech confection, it's a delight to find that it runs on SU carburettors.
An alien intelligence that is blind has no use for the color blue.
Broadview Energy's original plans for four 410ft-high (125m) turbines at Bicton were criticised for having a "distracting and alien impact".
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