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Controversy had engulfed the Dec. 15 election of President Janet Jagan, with repeated attempts to declare her government illegitimate.
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’.
This scoop was about the late Princess Grace of Monaco, who, it claimed, had been initiated into the sinister Order of the Solar Temple--which was engulfed by mass murder and suicide in France, Switzerland, and Canada in 1994--shortly before her own death in a car crash in the south of France 12 years earlier.
At 8:58, however, after assessing the North Tower roof, a helicopter pilot advised the ESU team that they could not land on the roof, because"it is too engulfed in flames and heavy smoke condition."
After being engulfed, the bacterium secretes virulence factors to degrade the phagosome.