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...lovers would forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even own the company...
Without blood vessels as feeding tubes, the tumors are malnourished and cannot spread throughout the body. Vascular endothelial cells make up a layer of cells that line blood vessels...
...proteins are part of the larger regulatory system that maintains the layer of endothelial cells in blood vessels. The cells rarely divide, and are normally replaced by a completely new set every three years. However, when they are stimulated by the proteins sent out by the cancerous tumors, the cells' turnover rate skyrockets to every four days, fueling the growth of the vessels to feed the tumors...
...journey itself, while interesting, is not the most important layer of the text, but the prose--always competent but often unremarkable--becomes iridescent when we enter Saskia's dream worlds. Initially set in fantastic locales, in dusty markets heaped high with silks and sea-bound observatories straining toward the stars, the dream and outer worlds slowly move together and come to terms over the possession of Saskia's perception...
...Just how brilliant depends on many factors. The solid comet's size is one, and Hale-Bopp, an estimated 20 miles across, is bigger than most. (Halley's was less than half as large.) Its history is another. Out in deep space, a comet can get encrusted with a layer of gummy dust. This layer can seal in most of the ice and prevent it from vaporizing. Some gas may spurt out through cracks in the crust, giving a comet a premature air of greatness that amounts to not much...