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spore - 1. A reproductive cell that develops into an individual without union with other cells; some spores such as meiospores are the product of the germ line, but others are asexual in nature. 2. A small, protected resting body, often synthesized by micro-organisms when nutrient levels are low. [FAO]

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Electronic Arts Headed to E for All  -  21 Aug 2007
GameDAILY BIZWhile a press release issued by IDG did not list games that players will play from EA, the popular rumor that Spore will be playable on the show floor at

Huntington News Network Critic  -  21 Aug 2007
HNN Huntingtonnews.net,As one patient proclaims, “My husband is not my husband [anymore],�? that not enough psycho-babble make spewing spore vomit on one another a symbol for

Hebron District champs, 4th at state  -  21 Aug 2007
nwitimes.com,Ashley Spurr, Carrie Combs, Kaylie Asher and Alyssa Spore; back row, manager Larry Spore, scorekeeper Bobbi Combs and coach Mike Upchurch.

Brown lawns sprouting up in area  -  21 Aug 2007
Columbus Telegram,Like many fungal diseases, these are promoted by wet weather, which allows fungal spore to more easily infect turfgrass over a longer period of time.

Attack of the Japanese beetles  -  21 Aug 2007
Wisconsin State Journal,The larva eat grass roots, often turning lawns brown, but the application of milky spore bacteria to the lawn can kill the grubs.

Games Convention 2007 preview  -  21 Aug 2007
Pro-G,Of the huge list of titles expect coverage of Spore, FIFA 08, The Simpsons Game, Battlefield Bad Company, Crysis, Orange Box and Burnout Paradise.

Fumigation completed at St. John's hospital  -  21 Aug 2007
Ventura County Star (subscription),Test spore strips placed at 860 locations throughout the hospital are also being examined to gauge the fumigation's effectiveness.

VA Tech monitoring for soybean rust with plots, spore traps  -  Aug 16, 2007
Stop Soybean Rust News,This year Virginia researchers, in an effort to track the movement of soybean rust spores into the state, have strategically located spore traps designed to

Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore  -  Aug 5, 2007
Slashdot...imashoe writes "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of

EA CEO is already playing Spore  -  Aug 2, 2007
ReutersToday’s quarterly earnings report from Electronic Arts failed to mention “Spore“, the next highly anticipated game from “Sims�? creator Will Wright.

What's at Leipzig GC?  -  Aug 20, 2007
CVG OnlineIt'll also be offering the press (that's us) its first chance to go hands-on with Will Wright's Spore, possibly one the most shockingly ambitious games ever

Spore Releases First Playable Demo at Leipzig  -  Aug 7, 2007
Gaming Today,Remember Spore? I totally do. It was going to revolutionize the way we play games, bringing player customization to new levels. That was a few years ago.

Spore, Playable at Leipzig, Baby  -  Aug 7, 2007
Kotaku.com,Spore will be journalist-playable for the first time ever later this month at Leipzig. It's almost enough excitement for us to stay sober to enjoy...or to

Spore to be playable at Leipzig  -  Aug 8, 2007
PALGN,The concept and video demos for Will Wright’s Spore have been wowing E3 viewers for a few years now. However, it was one of the more noticeable absentees

Go to Leipzig, play Spore*  -  Aug 8, 2007
GamingNexus,If you're going to the Leipzig game show this month it looks like you might get the chance to play Spore, EA's upcoming life simulator.

Spore playable at Leipzig  -  Aug 7, 2007
GameSpotA slate of EA's titles at the Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig shows Spore will be playable by journalists at the event, the first time that it has been.

Spore traps could suss out sclerotinia  -  Aug 6, 2007
FarmersWeekly,After sclerotinia hit many oilseed rape crops harder this season than expected after the dry April, a Rothamsted researcher believes spore trapping may

From the Primordial Soup The Insane Genius of Will Wright’s Spore  -  Aug 2, 2007
Synthesis,In his latest project, Spore (currently in development), Will seeks to bridge the gap between SimAnt and SimEarth and then some.

"Invasion" better left on shelf  -  Aug 17, 2007
2TheAdvocate,The spore, if able to invade a human body, leads to a sort of symbiosis, allowing humans to keep their memories and lives while simultaneously taking away

EA: Spore Will Ship When It's Done  -  Aug 1, 2007
Next Generation,By Kris Graft Electronic Arts reaffirmed that it will be releasing Will Wright's Spore sometime in the early fiscal 2009 timeframe, but added that the game

Spore Will Be Ready When It's Damn Well Ready  -  Aug 2, 2007
Kotaku.com,You're excited about Spore. I can tell. It's in your eyes, the way they light up when I utter the word. I can also see the grim determination in them as you

EA CEO: Spore Next Spring, Bring on Halo  -  Aug 1, 2007
ShacknewsResponding to a question of the company's confidence in Will Wright's upcoming evolution simulator Spore, Riccitiello reiterated the title's release date of

This Week In History  -  Aug 19, 2007
The Register-Guard,1877: "Diptheria - There has been quite a number of cases of this terrible disease in the neighborhood of Spore's Ferry, seven or eight miles north of this

Greener Gardens - Milky Spore  -  Jul 25, 2007
WSIL TV,Margie assures, "There is a control that's a biological control called Milky Spore, and its a bacteria. And it is a safe form that kills only the Japanese

Comparison of Spore: E3 2007 to 2005 two years of improvement  -  Jul 23, 2007
Product Reviews,Today we found a video of the upcoming game Spore, in the video they compare how the game looked in E3 2005 and E3 2007. From what I can see there are great

Movie Review: The Invasion  -  Aug 17, 2007
IESB.NET,Tucker’s just been fully hazmatted-out to view shuttle debris, but—immediately upon return to civilian gear—pricks his finger on a spore-filled piece of the

Sex hex may be causing frogs to croak  -  Aug 10, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,A spore would be a more likely mechanism." Spores could be picked up by birds feeding or could drift in the wind. "They could be stuck on the bottom of your

Cane smut search in Burdekin  -  Aug 13, 2007
ABC Online,The Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations has placed 10 spore traps in the area to locate what it believes is a smut outbreak somewhere in the east of the

Opinions on a new gaming box  -  Aug 17, 2007
Atomic,Mainly upgrading for bioshock/spore(lol) and because of getting my first tax return :) I also do photo/video editing and modelling/programming (comp sci

Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel. US. 2007. 100mins  -  Aug 16, 2007
Screendaily.com (subscription),Scientists, among them CDC official Tucker Kaufman (Northam), quickly discover that the wreckage is covered in an alien spore and that those who come into

'Invasion' misses the mark as commentary, thriller  -  Aug 16, 2007
Orange County Register,Unbeknownst to Carol, there IS an alien invasion afoot – an infectious "endo-spore" ferried to Earth on space- shuttle wreckage and spread by the Typhoid

Movie review: The Invasion  -  Aug 17, 2007
Pegasus News,At its core - or, should I say, its SPORE? - The Invasion is really a zombie movie in body snatcher clothing. OK, so the zombies (or, in the case of this

Mars mission as germ-free as possible  -  Aug 4, 2007
Canada.com,Spore-forming bacteria have been the focus of planetary protection standards because these bacteria can survive harsh conditions for many years as inactive

Beach city workers speak against health care plan cuts  -  Aug 14, 2007
The Virginian-Pilot,The council hasn’t voted yet, but City Manager Jim Spore is hopeful the board will decide this month on the 2008 plan. The proposed changes include reducing

Electronic Arts Shares Jump  -  Aug 2, 2007
Forbes,..."Spore," one of the most highly anticipated titles in video game history, is set to launch next spring. The brainchild of "Sims" creator Will Wright,

Colorectal cancer research surges at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center  -  Jul 26, 2007
EurekAlert (press release),The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has landed another round of support for its Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in gastrointestinal

Auf wiedersehen  -  Aug 20, 2007
The Age,Halo 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Call of Duty 4, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2 and Spore, and hopefully there will be plenty of exciting new games, too.

2K patrolling Borderlands in late '08  -  Aug 16, 2007
GameSpotGrand Theft Auto IV, Spore, Prototype, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution, Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet, and Meal Gear Solid 4:

EA Loss Widens 63 Percent  -  Aug 1, 2007
Forbes,One of the most highly anticipated titles in the gaming world is "Spore," by "Sims" developer Will Wright, considered one of the gaming industry's most

An inside job  -  Jul 25, 2007
Dental Economics,Biologic monitoring (spore testing) is the main guarantee of sterilization. Biologic monitoring involves processing highly resistant bacterial endospores

News for nerds, stuff that matters  -  Aug 5, 2007
Slashdot...from the i-thought-it-was-crack dept. imashoe writes "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that

Humanity missing in soulless 'Invasion'  -  Aug 17, 2007
Baltimore Sun,He and the rest of the spore-people have an easier method of infecting humans: They can simply hurl on them. There hasn't been so much pea soup spit

Land row flares up again  -  Aug 5, 2007
The Lowestoft Journal,This has led to Mr Bee coming under attack from Sally Spore, leader of the Labour opposition group on the council. “If the (Journal) articles are correct in

ThreeSpeech Confirms PS3 Digital Tuner Leipzig Presence  -  Aug 14, 2007
Kotaku.com,BY THEJORDANATOR AT 05:32 PM The only reason I would ever go to Leipzig in a world where bioshock dropped two days prior is if spore was playable.

EA’s quarterly loss  -  Aug 1, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,EA said that the long-awaited “Spore�? from Will Wright is scheduled to debut in the spring of 2008. There are 10 big new properties coming in the current

The Future of PC Gaming Isn't You  -  Aug 14, 2007
Escapist Magazine,Are you almost unable to contain your anticipation for the likes of BioShock, Spore and Hellgate: London? Do you have a kick-ass gaming rig that's the envy

EA: Still In the Game  -  Jul 31, 2007
Forbes,With heavy-hitting franchises such as the "Sims" and "Madden NFL," as well as Will Wright's highly anticipated "Spore" due next year, EA has a solid shot at

X|Media|Lab Melbourne: Brian Gruber, Fora.tv  -  Aug 10, 2007
Corante,He showed a presentation of a conversation between Brian Eno and Will Wright about Spore. (Suw wants to know what's happening with Spore. Anybody know?

Tim's Tips: Time to start attacking Japanese beetles  -  Jul 28, 2007
The Daily News of Newburyport,Milky Spore is a host specific bacteria. This means that it only kills certain insects. In this case, it kills grubs that feed on your lawn.

EA Mobile on iPod Game Development  -  Aug 3, 2007
iLounge,Since Will Wright has said that he’s creating Spore to work on everything from PCs to cell phones, is there any hope for an iPod version?

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