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Moving bacteria that reach the cell plasma membrane form membrane-bound protrusions that are engulfed by neighboring cells, allowing the infection to spread without the bacteria ever leaving the cytoplasmic environment.
Among the many highlights: Morningland, whose high priestess preaches that Christ will land a UFO "the size of Texas" in Long Beach, Calif.; Richard W. Noone, who says the Earth's crust will shift on May 5, 2000, turning oceans into "maelstroms of death"; and Meade Ministries, which believes the "world will soon be engulfed in a sticky white substance."
Critics heap praise on O'Nan's latest, the gruesome tale of a man who returns to Wisconsin after the Civil War to find his hometown engulfed by a diphtheria epidemic and hemmed in at the edges by wildfires.
In the kitchen is a planter of yellow tulips with pale-green markings engulfed by a mass of purple grape hyacinths.
Plant molecular biologist Chris Bowler (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy) explains that molecular phylogeny and morphological studies suggest that diatoms originated ‘probably as the result of a eukaryote being invaded or engulfed by a photosynthetic eukaryote, most probably a red alga’.