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Computer Program Is A Bitchy Women

a: Computer program ~
b: a bitchy women

What: If the there is a slightest error in so anything you do, in the way you move your hands, your syntax or the logic of you argument. you will hear instant criticism to which you must comply, if not, there is no forward progress, no harmony and no compilation.

Useful?
Writer: Lucretia Gerrmancia
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jun 16 2011 9:03 AM


Cancer Cell Is Shedding Snake Skin

a: Cancer cell ~
b: Shedding snake

What: "Like snakes, tumour cells shed their skin. Cancer is not a static disease but during its development the disease accumulates changes to evade natural defences adapting to new environmental circumstances, protecting against chemotherapy and radiotherapy and invading neighbouring organs, eventually causing metastasis."

Useful?
Writer: Not stated
LCC: RB
Where:
Date: Oct 11 2011 8:13 PM



a: Renewable energy ~
b: The Swine Flu

What: "What I didn't tell him, because I thought of it later, is that renewables are more like swine flu vaccine than like a regular marketplace technology." The article is an association between swine flu and the threat of global warming.

Useful?
Writer: Steve Offutt
LCC:
Where:
Date: Feb 11 2012 1:10 PM



a: stomach ~
b: a food blender

What:

"The stomach is like a food blender. It makes a milky. mixture called chyme by breaking food into smaller pieces."


Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where:
Date: Jan 26 2015 9:11 PM



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