Later that afternoon, we learned that scientists all agreed: the dust was a living thing.

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The underwater Randian dystopia of the first game, for all its decline into madness, felt like a living thing.

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For one thing there are all those wise men, like Fed Chairman Benjamin Bernanke, telling us living on debt is the wise thing to do and things are okay.

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