Rather than fight googly-eyed martians, however, you help spread life to the Red Planet, planting a variety of seeds which in turn grow a variety of plant-life, and awaken other forms of life, as you traverse the depths.

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Red Herring, in particular, wants to spread the word about the region's innovation model.

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On my spread in the Hudson Valley, red-winged blackbirds came back a week early and met a heavy snowfall.

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Netflix today serves more than 10 million subscribers and ships approximately two million of its iconic red mailers per day from 58 distribution centers spread geographically across the United States.

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Gandy credited nationwide awareness programs, such as Go Red for Women day February 6, with helping spread the word about heart disease detection and prevention.

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But Portnoy manages to find a similar spread--using even healthier foods like squash, red peppers and mushrooms--from a textbook published in 1972.

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