When you made this mistake with Spore, the company and all your employees suffered for it.
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Anthrax is an infectious, potentially fatal disease caused by a spore-forming bacterium known as Bacillus anthracis.
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The wind, after all, is the preferred vehicle of many a seed or spore.
They can see the spore-cloud coming, even if the men in Washington can't.
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Just forget that Sims 2 stuff and save your darseks up for Spore.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
Developed by Will Wright, Spore involves players using tools to help their creations evolve from cells to civilised beings.
Investigators also traced the envelopes that contained the spore-laced letters to the Frederick, Maryland, area where Ivins lived, Taylor said.
The Ames strain of the anthrax spore that was used in the 2001 attacks was commonly used in U.S. government labs.
The letter had reportedly contained a single spore of anthrax, but a link has yet to be firmly established between Lundgren and the letter.
So, she must have been exposed to a sufficient amount, and that would vary, depending on the individual and the quality of the spore.
Think of Spore as an exploded Sims--way, way bigger in scale.
Outside of the few titles--"Spore, " "Super Monkey Ball" and "Krull"--that were announced at Apple press conferences, game developers are being forced to keep quiet about their applications.
"The higher temperatures and gas may increase not just the growth of mold but also its spore production which is how it distributes allergens both indoors and out, " Demain says.
In Spore, players start as a single-celled organism and evolve into a swimming or walking creature that mates, becomes a village and, eventually, ends up as a planet.
Among the possible applications for the software, YouTube announced that Electronic Arts' upcoming game, "Spore, " will allow players to upload clips of the game's characters to the Web.
Spotting their tracks, where they have fed, their spore (fecal pellets) or maybe a very rare glimpse of them on the skyline, is enough to excite even the most half-hearted naturalist.
Stibich showed that a high-energy form of UV called UV-C could kill C. diff, in either its active state or as a dormant spore protected by a tough seedlike shell.
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The infection "may have occurred when an envelope was opened on September 25, 2001, that may have contained material contaminated with the spore-form of anthrax, " the CDCP said in a statement.
He cited two games as examples: Spore in which players guide the evolution of simulated life forms and Second Life, a shared online world in which players create elaborate virtual homes, businesses, and relationships.
In "Spore, " players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell--you cover the first 20 million years pretty quickly--to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape.
"I suspect that when "Spore" comes out this year or next year, it will be another example of that, " Meretzsky says, referring to an upcoming title by Electronic Arts star designer Will Wright.
The FBI had hoped to use science to trace the source of the anthrax, a biological spore that even in small amounts can prove deadly and can be easily transmitted through the air.
Among the possible applications for the software, YouTube announced that Electronic Arts' (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) upcoming game, "Spore, " will allow players to upload clips of the game's characters to the Web.
Travis Boatman from Electronic Arts showed off a project based on Spore that the videogame giant's developers cobbled together in two weeks that took advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and touch-screen interface to guide the evolution of a hungry micro-organism.
"It was apparent to us that one day the robots would take over the world, and we decided we wanted to be on the wining side, " Wright wrote in a note posted on Wednesday to Sporum, the official "Spore" forum.
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