If this venture or anything like it succeeds, it will change the way mankind interacts with the living world.
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The inorganic world predated the living world by a billion or so years.
Soon he would, in the name of Empire, rearrange the living world.
"I think if we pull it off, it changes everything to do with our interaction with the living world, " says Drew Endy , a young MIT professor who is one of the company's co-founders.
"It is also a symbol that marks the doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead that is offered as our acknowledgement of the dead, " he told the BBC.
Mariko Fujiwara, a research director at the Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living, points out that not only are the Japanese living longest in the world, they are also living the healthiest.
With the reallocation of some 5 to 6% of the world's aid budgets, and using a self-help model, we could see a massive improvement in the living standards of the world's poor in the next 10 to 20 years.
Seniors would do far better each choosing their own health insurers themselves in a competitive marketplace, which is the system that has generated the highest standard of living in the world in America for all goods and services.
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Do they celebrate their position as among the longest living nations in the world?
He's a retired movie star, and he's believed to be the oldest living chimpanzee in the world.
The verified oldest living person in the world is Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
Joni Mitchell feels like a token pick, and Prince, while a very talented artist, is certainly not one of the ten best living songwriters in the world.
" On the victory podium standing with Mario Andretti, the only living American F1 world champion, Hamilton called the event "probably one of the best, if not the best Grand Prix we've had all year.
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However, he is still several years behind the holder of the title of oldest living male in the world.
"I think he's probably the greatest living voice artist in the world, " Spector said.
He wonders if the fifth generation of exiles, too, will be living on the world's handouts.
Shocking, because it constitutes more evidence that the developed world is living in its worst economic times since the Great Depression, with yet another milestone met.
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John McArdle said traders in Newry were "tearing their hair out" in the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s and he accused civil servants of "not living in the real world".
But the former Conservative minister argued that it was common knowledge that he earned his living in the transport world.
Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is named after the ferryman who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, which divided the world of the living from that of the dead.
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Until recently ad salesmen in the magazine world were famous for living the materialistic lifestyles their publications promote.
BodyMedia CEO Christine Robins says the company has the world's largest living database of energy output, activity and behavior change.
Nadesar--a classic example of Raj architecture and a royal palace from 1889 to 1931--sits smack in the heart of the world's oldest living city, Varanasi.
Yet such legitimate concerns should not be allowed to detract from the basic progress that has occurred: in the past 20 years the share of the world's population living in proper democracies has risen from about a third to just over half.
Now we're going to develop a permanently manned space station and new opportunities for free enterprise, because in the next decade Americans and our friends around the world will be living and working together in space.
The expedition force is led by the man known as the world's greatest living explorer - 68-year-old Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
For Bruce Beavers, however, this camp is just about the best place in the world he could be living right now.
Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, who holds the distinction of being the world's oldest living person, is celebrating his 116th birthday on Friday.
"The greatest living explorer" according to the Guinness World of Records, the undisputed king of narrow escapes, reflects on his life at the edge of reason -- and what it's like to lose your fingers to frostbite.
The advances achieved in computing and telecommunications in the West offer enormous, indeed unprecedented, scope for raising living standards in the third world (see our survey).
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