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  • After passing through an intermediate zone of short evergreens and everblues, then after climbing again through dense strands of mutated lodgepole pines and triaspen, we came into the flame forest proper with its groves of tall prometheus, trailers of ever present phoenix, and round stands of amber ! ambents.†   (source)
  • It was when it showed up, and even now this virus that can mutate in infinite ways to thwart nearly any treatment eludes our efforts to corral it.†   (source)
  • Everyone gets all mutated?†   (source)
  • E. coli 0157:H7 is a mutated version of a bacterium found abundantly in the human digestive system.†   (source)
  • A mutated glowworm?†   (source)
  • —Papa Mack stiffened as a wave of nausea rolled over him and then just as quickly mutated into anger.†   (source)
  • "The radiation might have mutated the genetic material hundreds of years ago, but there wouldn't be any trace of it now."†   (source)
  • Do you think they hide because they've mutated and don't look …. human anymore?†   (source)
  • From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it.†   (source)
  • The Ebola virus, in its Sudan incarnation, retreated to the heart of the bush, where undoubtedly it lives to this day, cycling and cycling in some unknown host, able to shift its shape, able to mutate and become a new thing, with the potential to enter the human species in a new form.†   (source)
  • In 1956, she decided to stage a festival to mark the centenary of George Bernard Shaw's birth, and then began putting out a newspaper devoted to Shaw, which mutated into an underground, alternative weekly called The Paper.†   (source)
  • She thought of the prehistoric reptiles that came mutating out of the slime and the insects with chromosome damage poking from the desert near some test site, ants the size of bookmobiles—these were movies for the drive-ins of the fifties, a boy and girl yanking at each other's buckles and snaps while the bomb footage unfurls and the giant leeches and scorpions appear on the horizon, all radioactive and seeking revenge, and the fleeing crowds, of course, because in the end these…†   (source)
  • I'm not a scientist, but could it be mutating or something?†   (source)
  • Violence against women is also constantly mutating into new forms.†   (source)
  • They thought it was a good thing, a vaccine, but it mutated under intense heat and became a virus.†   (source)
  • Science has taught us that normal genes in cells can be damaged or mutated to become deadly "oncogenes" that result in cancer.†   (source)
  • This whole idea of mutated bacteria seemed farfetched and unlikely to the Wildfire people.†   (source)
  • She laughed softly, but the laughter mutated into a cough that she couldn't easily suppress.†   (source)
  • Do you think there's really some giant mutated grizzly out there?†   (source)
  • They looked like they'd been grown and nurtured in colossal vats, a jumble of mutated cells that had been made to grow around a mechanical core until the machinery and engines were subsumed and buried within living tissues.†   (source)
  • Leaking sacks of mutated maggots?†   (source)
  • Mutated fruit trees.†   (source)
  • But instead there I was stuck in this mutated version of my old life where everyone had grown-up just enough to forget about me.†   (source)
  • The bacteria mutated and is now resistant to the antibiotic.
  • You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible.†   (source)
  • Tried to infect her with whatever mutated plague he's carrying?"†   (source)
  • Which raises all kinds of questions: Did all animals once mutate at this rate?†   (source)
  • We will start with these mutated poverty grasses.†   (source)
  • How does the animal itself change so little when its DNA is mutating so rapidly?†   (source)
  • "Well, I don't want to stick around in here if it is some weird mutated plague.†   (source)
  • To see the results of their mutated plague virus?†   (source)
  • 47 degrees and hold thattemperature for two hours, it will mutate.†   (source)
  • Monique de Raison was in this building, working feverishly on a solution to her own mutated virus.†   (source)
  • Mutating, adapting, strengthening—who knows.†   (source)
  • They're nothing but leaking sacks of mutated maggots, just like you."†   (source)
  • It has apparently mutated to a benign form.†   (source)
  • And if it should mutate in some other direction ….†   (source)
  • It's not our fault the virus is mutating."†   (source)
  • I also know that the Raison Vaccine will mutate under extreme heat and become quite deadly.†   (source)
  • It would mutate into a virus that would make SARS look like a case of the hiccups.†   (source)
  • Yes, of course; the Raison Vaccine will mutate and infect untold millions.†   (source)
  • This Raison Vaccine is going to mutate and kill us all like a bunch of rats?†   (source)
  • The switch may have mutated along with the vaccine.†   (source)
  • It mutates under intense heat and becomes a deadly virus that kills billions of people.†   (source)
  • It was a vaccine that mutated into a virus under extreme heat.†   (source)
  • So let me make a suggestion: When you apply this specific heat to your miraculous drug, it mutates.†   (source)
  • Now the fire was mutating, forming a gigantic pack of fiery beasts: Flaming serpents, chimaeras, and dragons rose and fell and rose again, and the detritus of centuries on which they were feeding was thrown up into the air into their fanged mouths, tossed high on clawed feet, before being con-sumed by the inferno.†   (source)
  • His adolescent physique and childlike face had drastically mutated when he flooded his young body with experimental growth hormones and steroids.†   (source)
  • She looked on in horror as Zachary's body began mutating, his muscles bulging, and his facial features morphing from the obvious heavy use of steroids.†   (source)
  • I pay two hundred dollars a month, every month, and I think of it as my "regret money," and though what I am regretful for mutates and evolves, I am glad to pay it, the only mortgage I will ever be given.†   (source)
  • PUNDI RICE: a mutated rice whose grains, high in natural sugar, achieve lengths up to four centimeters; chief export of Caladan.†   (source)
  • The mutated poverty grasses were planted first along the downwind (slipface) of the chosen dunes that stood across the path of the prevailing westerlies.†   (source)
  • Many of them had mutated.†   (source)
  • Surely he understood that her signature might not have survived, or that it might not work on the mutated vaccine.†   (source)
  • Mukhtar Mai. when we first met her, with students at her school (Nicholas D. Kristof) As the days passed, Mukhtar's attitude mutated from humiliation to rage.†   (source)
  • They had to be careful the organism didn't mutate, didn't change to something radically different in its effects.†   (source)
  • When does the virus mutate again?†   (source)
  • The Ebola Reston virus jumped quickly from room to room, and as it blossomed in the monkeys, it seemed to mutate spontaneously into something that looked quite a lot like influenza.†   (source)
  • The AIDS virus and other emerging viruses are surviving the wreck of the tropical biosphere because they can mutate faster than any changes taking place in their ecosystems.†   (source)
  • But the Wildfire team staunchly ignored both the evidence of their own experience—that bacteria mutate rapidly and radically—and the evidence of the Biosatellite tests, in which a series of earth forms were sent into space and later recovered.†   (source)
  • "Well, if it is mutating and if any of us have caught it, let's hope it gives us a week or two before we lose our wits.†   (source)
  • Ironically, her own genetic engineering, designed to keep the vaccine viable for long periods without contacting any host or moisture, had allowed the inert vaccine to mutate in such adverse conditions.†   (source)
  • Mutated to a noninfectious form.†   (source)
  • If it mutates, it could be a problem.†   (source)
  • It was true, a man named Valborg Svensson had released a virus that had mutated from the Raison Vaccine.†   (source)
  • The fact that the virus mutates rapidly means that vaccines for it will be very difficult to develop.†   (source)
  • News about a highly virulent outbreak of a mutated viral vaccine, dubbed the Raison Strain, on a small island south of Java had hit the wires yesterday morning, and the wires were burning hot.†   (source)
  • And perhaps it is still mutating.†   (source)
  • We need you to identify this back door, verify that it hasn't mutated with the vaccine, and then create the virus that will turn the Raison Strain off.†   (source)
  • It mutates even in the course of one infection, and a person who dies of HIV is usually infected with multiple strains, which have all arisen spontaneously as mutants in the body.†   (source)
  • Mutated.†   (source)
  • He said that the Raison Vaccine would mutate into a deadly virus and wipe out half the world's population.†   (source)
  • If I can prove to you that everything I've told you is true, that your vaccine really will mutate into something fatal, will you call it off?†   (source)
  • They had proof that the Raison Vaccine could mutate into one very bad virus, and no one seemed to want to make sure it didn't.†   (source)
  • I'm pretty sure that the only way they even know the Raison Vaccine has the potential to mutate into a deadly virus is because I spilled the beans to someone who told them.†   (source)
  • The fact is, I knew who would win the Kentucky Derby, I knew that the Raison Vaccine would mutate, and I knew exactly under what circumstances it would mutate.†   (source)
  • Any virus can mutate.†   (source)
  • But they can mutate.†   (source)
  • It mutates under extreme heat and becomes a virus that we believe may have far-reaching implications.†   (source)
  • The vaccine never would have mutated because no natural cause would ever produce a heat high enough to trigger the mutation.†   (source)
  • Everyone thinks it's a vaccine, but it mutates under intense heat and will ravage the world sometime in 2010.†   (source)
  • The virus mutates under extreme heat.†   (source)
  • You do know it's capable of mutating, because according to our internal sources, it also mutates at a lower heat, but the mutations never could sustain themselves for more than a generation or two.†   (source)
  • You do know it's capable of mutating, because according to our internal sources, it also mutates at a lower heat, but the mutations never could sustain themselves for more than a generation or two.†   (source)
  • So you remember exactly how the virus mutates, and you think you may have given some information about the antivirus to this Carlos character, but you forget how to formulate it yourself?†   (source)
  • Tell him it mutates at 179.†   (source)
  • The vaccine mutates at 179.†   (source)
  • Mutating.†   (source)
  • But a neodog is not a talking dog; he is not a dog at all, he is an artificially mutated symbiote derived from dog stock.†   (source)
  • The figures of Dick and herself, mutating, undefined, appeared as spooks caught up into a fantastic dance.†   (source)
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