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...postdoctoral fellow to get myself coated in a layer of gold." There is a frontier spirit in these fast-growing intellectual boom-towns that attracts job seekers with a taste for adventure. Calcutta-born Uttam Surana, an ambitious young biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, turned down an offer from Germany's venerable Max Planck Institute to go to Singapore. "When you work with big people, you get overshadowed by their thinking," says Surana. "Here you can think your own thoughts...
TAXES: Oregon, Missouri and Montana rejected a requirement to put all new tax proposals to public vote. Nevada approved a two-thirds legislative approval for tax increases. Massachusetts rejected a graduated income tax in favor of the current flat rate. Arizona passed a cigarette-tax increase. Colorado rejected one. Oklahoma rejected a 1-cent entertainment tax that would have paid for breast-cancer research...
...popular TV star in the 1960s, but was reduced to dinner theater in Arizona in 1978, when he was brutally murdered." The answer: Bob Crane...
...About 30 percent of suspects are excluded [from guilt] by DNA testing," says David H. Kaye, Regents professor at Arizona State University. "DNA profiling has resulted in many cases being resolved that would have gone unsolved...
...stakes could hardly be higher for the eight-year-old firm, which runs two private schools in Eagan, Minnesota, and Paradise Valley, Arizona, designed as laboratories to refine new teaching methods, as well as nine schools in Baltimore, Maryland, and one in South Florida. Landing an entire district represents an enormous coup: the Hartford deal will increase annual revenues six-fold, from $34 million for the past fiscal year to approximately $200 million...