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Skaggs had finished his day's work, a double portrait of the magician Signor Antonio Blitz and his favorite wooden dummy. He decided to use the rest of the afternoon to start writing an essay, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's lecture last month, on the ways that railway travel and photography and the telegraph were warping the perception of time...
...Customs Service drug-testing program "unreasonable and wholly unconstitutional." Acting on a suit brought by the National Treasury Employees Union, Collins permanently enjoined a program requiring urinalysis tests for employees seeking promotions in three sensitive categories, including those directly involved in enforcing drug laws. In Chattanooga, Federal Judge R. Allan Edgar last month rejected the city's program to test police and fire fighters, ruling that an individual could be examined only when supervisors had "reasonable suspicion" that an employee used drugs...
...Angeles, where red is the hair flavor of the day, the aim among youngsters often is to imitate such scarlet-tressed idols as Teen Actress Molly Ringwald and Sarah Ferguson, the new Duchess of York. Older trendies are often attracted by the instant but revocable shock value. Explains Allan Mottus, publisher of the Informationist, a beauty-industry newsletter: "Monday through Friday you can have one life-style and then change it on Saturday night. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde lives...
...been a revelation for drug developers as well. Its data make clear that there are almost no genes that are exclusively expressed in any one structure or region. That, says Allan Jones, chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, means "people will have to think harder about targeting pathways with combinations of drugs." Researchers like Dietrich Stephan at the Translational Genomics Research Institute are doing just that. Relying on the ABA, Stephan has identified a group of genes involved in age-related memory loss and has developed five compounds that mimic the activity of the genes...
...Allan Martinson, a venture capitalist, reckons that Estonia's true innovative edge is speed. "We're fast early adopters. We're very good at getting innovation to work," he says. For example, the whole financial system leapfrogged into electronic banking in the mid-1990s, bypassing all messy dealings with checks and other paper transactions...