Shamanism, for example, is far from having disappeared among Turkish populations from the steppes of Turkestan to the Anatolian plateau, and one might speak of a “Sufized shamanism.

A thrill passed through her. With the Chung Wang at their head our troops are truly invincible, she told herself. First Soochow, and then Hangchow. Now our glorious army has occupied Sung-chiang, only sixty li away. The Final Victory is at hand! Soon we'll take Shanghai, and then we'll have a port, which means we can communicate with the outside world.

Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

Upon selection with a monoclonal antibody, for example, we can amplify selectant sequences by RT-PCR, regenerate the VLP library, and then repeat this process over multiple rounds of affinity selection.