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A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making abundant the green and squiggly life. Talk about death has headed us straight into a contemplation of life, not only individual life, but big life, life on a global scale. Death and life are neatly dovetailed by the supreme cabinetmaker of evolution. Again, the crucial feature is not the death of any one creature per se, but rather what is done with death. To reach into the meaning of death, we must reach out into the wider context of which death is a part. |
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Quick Results with the Output Delivery System (Art Carpenter's SAS Software)Improve the appearance of your SAS output today! Learn the basic concepts of the Output Delivery System (ODS) and apply ODS features to your SAS output quickly and effectively. This book discusses issues associated with defining and selecting output destinations, selecting output objects, and creating customized output files. By using the... | | | | Local Networks and the Internet: From Protocols to Interconnection (ISTE)
A network transmits information from point-to-point from an office, company,
school, aircraft carrier or, more generally, from anywhere on the planet. Very often
associated with the Internet, it has completely transformed the design of traditional
computer systems. To remember this, one need only read the short story by... |
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