And some secularists share the view of the late American writer Michael Crichton that environmentalism is a religion, with its own creed and its own versions of paradise and hell.
The following news strongly suggests that yes, the apocalypse is upon us, and hell has frozen over: Duke Nukem Forever, the most delayed video game of all time, is completed and ready to ship.
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If Netflix simply started offering by-mail rentals of games, that probably would have been something for Gamefly to really fear, but the split of the company between streaming and by-mail makes it a lot less formidable, as now customers have to use a new, separate service for mail rentals, and hell, they might as well sign up for the battle-tested Gamefly at that point, right?
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It made light bets in plain old stocks and bonds and went hell-for-leather into exotic and illiquid holdings: commodities, timberland, hedge funds, emerging-market equities and private equity partnerships.
Then Lehman Brothers folded and all hell broke loose, leading to TARP and QE1 and QE2 and now, maybe, QE3 and another recession, according to the opinions of CNBC viewers polled on Aug. 15.
People played no armor passive only amazons (meaning defense only, essentially) with hand axes and cleared Hell, because their defense was that good.
Okay, so maybe the unlocking of the GPS on Verizon BlackBerrys wasn't an accident after all -- and maybe hell has frozen completely over.
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Hendrix had a knack for bringing out the best in whatever musicians he surrounded himself with, and on People, Hell, and Angels he is no different.
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With the explosion of social networking, and our increasingly unguarded presence online, profiling guests has become a lot easier, and a hell of a lot more effective.
Coupled with the future departures to the ACC by both Syracuse and Pittsburgh, Notre Dame athletics took a look at the landscape of their soon-to-be conference peers and said Hell, no!
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While battling prostate cancer (he won that war) and raising hell in a very public divorce (he is now married to Judith Nathan, his third wife), he has been banking millions of dollars a year.
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He's not interested in conforming to a mainstream standard and was hell-bent on avoiding what he called "the karaoke culture" of "American Idol, " "The X Factor" and other programs in which singing is a competition for the mass taste.
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He had just gotten his license and would probably have agreed to drive to hell and back in order to log more miles behind the wheel.
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Like the Old Course, the Solent has both character and quirks, but instead of Hell Bunker and the Swilken Burn there are winds that can die in an instant and swirling tides that can go in two directions simultaneously.
It is the policy that has gotten strange: Democrats and Republicans seem hell-bent on protecting millions of high-income people from deficit-cutting tax hikes.
"Well as an elected Republican I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more, " McCarty writes in the fund-raising letter.
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For me, exploring is accidentally stumbling into a den of creatures 10 levels out of my league and trying like hell to run through without dying.
But death visits those in La Chureca and other pockets of hell on Earth daily, even for the living, and the primary source of this pain is financially rooted.
He settles in an old cowboy bunkhouse without electricity or running water near the town of Woolybucket where he proves a poor salesman of pig hell and an even worse liar.
The poor girl was put through hell and is probably in need of therapy, and it would be a shame if they neglect the negative effects the experience would have on her personality.
The memoir, "Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox, " draws heavily on diaries he kept and letters he wrote to friends, family and his hometown newspaper during his years in prison, the preface says.
In that recess yard, the boys used to play a kind of baseball -- but with no bat: you'd just whack the ball with your hand and run like hell to first base, which was a basement doorway.
And fight like hell for as long as they can, as long as the fire is burning, as long as they feel like they're making progress, as long as they're more happy when they get up in the morning than they are irritated.
Lest there be any lingering doubt, however, that politicians need the sort of pointed reminder the Minutemen are currently offering that, as they say in the movies, the American people are "mad as hell and not going to take it any more, " consider the likely scenario on the floor of the United States Senate this week.
And so, you know, many of the problems that Africa has now with this new generation of leaders, with this newly energized civil society, with people who are saying - you know, like the movie Network, we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore - I mean, there is a new vibrancy among those who want to see a renaissance in the continent.
That makes Canadian Dreams and Magics a whole hell of a lot more useful to business users than the G1s down in the States, and going forward, this is an issue T-Mobile probably wants to think about -- as long as the base Android code doesn't license ActiveSync, anyway.
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Hire the right people, and then get the hell out of their way as they specialize in what they do best.
As late as 1582, one map of the world went further, depicting the sites of Judgment, Purgatory and the outer and inner circles of Hell.
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Coral said she missed her "like hell" and wants her back in time for her 41st birthday, which is just before April's brother Harley turns 11.
As a result, Jacoby says, authorities go after those producing fake IDs "like the hounds of hell" and anyone caught manufacturing them can expect to go to prison.
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