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  2. Feed (Anderson novel) - Wikipedia

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    Violet calls FeedTech customer service but receives no help. Later, she tells Titus that her feed has been severely malfunctioning, and she may even die, having had the feed installed later in life (and so with greater accompanying risk). Due to her deteriorating feed, various parts of Violet's body are shutting down.

  3. Total body disruption - Wikipedia

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    Commonly referred to as being "blown up", "blown apart", or "dashed to pieces" in older literature, [3] total body disruption may be caused by such traumas as being within or in close proximity to a powerful explosion, uncontrolled decompression, or implosion. It is the most severe type of blast injury. [4]

  4. Sensory overload - Wikipedia

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    "Shutting down," or refusing to participate in activities and interact with others; Over-sensitivity to touch, movement, sights, or sounds. Avoiding touching or being touched; Irritation caused by shoes, socks, tags, or different textures; Complaining about noises that do not affect others; Covering eyes around bright lights

  5. Cell death - Wikipedia

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    Overview of signal transduction pathways involved in apoptosis. Cell death is the event of a biological cell ceasing to carry out its functions. This may be the result of the natural process of old cells dying and being replaced by new ones, as in programmed cell death, or may result from factors such as diseases, localized injury, or the death of the organism of which the cells are part.

  6. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  7. The Body Shop shuts down all US operations, closes ... - AOL

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    The Body Shop has shut down all of its US-based operations and will be closing dozens of Canadian store locations as it files for bankruptcy. In a news release earlier this month, the UK-based ...

  8. Immortality in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Immortality of the mind is sometimes accomplished by periodically moving it to a new physical body, transferring either just the consciousness as in A. E. van Vogt's 1948 novel The World of Null-A or transplanting the entire brain as in Michael G. Coney's 1974 novel Friends Come in Boxes; [13] [35] the new body is a clone of the original person ...

  9. Closures, Social Security checks, furloughs: What a ...

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    Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be sent home — or stay on the job without pay — just ahead of the holidays.