I've learned a hard and difficult lesson considering the childhood environment that I was brought up in - not to discriminate against any plant or creature.
In this case, the much-desired feeling of automotive superiority will have to come from the zero-emission badge, not a horsepower rating or superior creature comforts.
In Spore, players start as a single-celled organism and evolve into a swimming or walking creature that mates, becomes a village and, eventually, ends up as a planet.
"When people say ABN Amro is more powerful than any other economic or political creature in the Netherlands, this pretty much sets the example, " fumes James Rubin of New York-based Resurgence Asset Management, another DAF investor.
Our ancestors survived through a bias for action (e.g. eating every scrap of food I can get my hands on or clubbing a creature that looks at me sideways) not a bias for planning (thinking about retirement from hunting and gathering).
All those who saw us playing with the creature were immediately transfixed, be it due to nostalgia for Furbies gone by, or fascination with this strange new creature.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
Or if you take your creature online, as you can, you may find that it has gone off to play with others.
ECONOMIST: Using artificial intelligence to bond player and game
Experts could not establish whether the creature had died before or after it was put into the hot pan, the court was told.
Every few seconds, the creature's head or dorsal fin would poke through the murky waters, creating ripples and drawing murmurs from onlookers, who stood in the cold with cameras.
Each faction has distinct ways to win and manipulate the battlefield, and players can opt to win through creature dominance, powerful spells, or destiny itself.
Personally, I have trouble seeing any profession with plenty of creature comforts, a lack of physical danger or mortal consequence, and a handsome paycheck as worthy of inclusion on this list.
But the new threat is the ability to transform that creature into images of our own choosing, without regard to whether the new creature is going to be an improvement, or whether these so-called improvements are going to sap all of the energies of the soul that make for human aspirations, art, science and care for the less fortunate.
Every creature has at least one parasite that lives inside or on it--and some, including us humans, have many more.
Art is about eliciting a reaction and you would have to be the most jaded creature to not respond to this show, favorably or not.
FORBES: The Macabre Genius Alexander McQueen On Display At The Met
In scientific terms, probably the most significant effect of the Sea Empress spill has been felt by a tiny creature known as the brooding cushion-star, or Asterina phylactica to those in the know.
BBC: News | UK | West Wales recovering from 'environmental disaster'
They come out of sheer curiosity, or to behold the vast spaces bursting with thousands of gadgets and creature comforts.
WSJ: In China, IKEA Is a Swede Place for Senior Romance, Relaxation
But it was the health of another creature that was bothering one Plaid delegate - the fox, or at least the fate of one particular fox.
The cheapest versions won't have air-conditioning or power steering, but Tata hopes its cute looks will make up for missing creature comforts--just as happened with the VW Beetle and the Mini long before it.
Barring major technological developments, though, nuclear power will continue to be a creature of politics not economics, with any growth a function of political will or a side-effect of protecting electrical utilities from open competition.
But we have also learned that technology, as a creature of man, is as problematical, as ambivalent and as capable of good or evil as its creator.
But in recent years knots of people often gathered there to watch an odder creature creeping, by feet and hands alone, across the high sheer face of boulder, buttress or cliff.
ECONOMIST: John Bachar, free-climber, died on July 5th, aged 52
Any trait or organ may therefore be something of a botch, from the perspective of natural selection, even if the creature as a whole was the best job that could be done in the circumstances.
应用推荐