With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.

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That might help evolutionary biologists answer the question of why, for billions of years, and in every form of life on earth, only two base pairs are used.

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The deafening roar of U.S. Air Force fighter jets is a fact of life for residents near the Kadena Air Base in southern Okinawa.

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Raw recruits for the Royal Navy will be getting a first hand experience of life on board with a new high-tech training base on land.

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Life Technologies is a much more manageable 30 on a more diverse revenue base that includes lots of other lab reagents.

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Though social games are seeing most of the growth in number of users these days, Second Life seems to have a loyal, if stabilized, user base.

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