Today's threats are not to life itself, but are still able to trigger our primitive response.
"Let us then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things, " he said in a classic expression of our great tradition of conciliation.
Not only is prosperity welcome in itself but it contributes to rising life expectancy, another extraordinary boon, not least because prosperity brings with it improved health care.
Here we find a tension though, not only in the thought of Skylanders games riffing on their toys-to-life idea indefinitely, but also with the technology itself.
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In these schemes, donors gave money to a charity and took a deduction, and the charity used the "donation" to fund a life insurance policy benefiting not only itself but the donor.
This could breathe new life not just into Netflix, but the idea of online TV itself.
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But the tablet itself was bulky, performance was sluggish, battery life was mediocre and there weren't even that many Android apps designed to be used with a pen.
What he lost in the final months of his life surely pains the family, but it was the cult of Paterno itself that created the atmosphere that allowed a monster like Sandusky to roam freely.
For the kids, sharing their life with the rest of the world is a reward in itself, but 100cameras goes one step further.
Not a problem in itself, but on certain weapons and gear, there were links to real life arms manufacturers like the McMillan Group, which makes a high powered sniper rifle, and Magpul, which sells high capacity magazines and other assault rifle accessories.
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At the moment it is tiny and may not look like much, but in future it could form the basis for a real-life Transformer robot, autonomously reconfiguring itself to perform different tasks.
But the car itself is the perfect antidote to millions of boring appliances rolling down the road, a reminder that life is to be enjoyed.
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