Random Analogies

"Eating trans fat is like throwing sand into your finely regulated metabolic machinery."

"Natural killer (NK) cells are like cytotoxic T cells. They respond rapidly to viral infection of cells and to newly formed tumors, acting at around 3 days after infection."

"A multicellular organism is like a society made up of cells. The cells don't nor- mally do things that disturb the order of the society "

That first melon tureen was crafted for interior designer Howard Slatkin, whose shop on East 70th Street in New York City sold Kanevsky's porcelain creations as fast as he could make them. "I always loved botany in school, and next I had the idea to do a flower," the 61-year-old artist says. "I like flowers because they have a logical structure to them. It's like architecture. The inner structure of a flower is like a good building."