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...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...
...spiffy Peter Max rendition of the White House, a Camelot-ish photo of the President on horseback, recorded meows from Socks - these offerings and more are available at the White House's strenuously friendly new Internet site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) Users can also "tour" the mansion (except the family quarters) and download cartoons poking fun at Al Gore. More in the familiar style of the federal government are the retrievable studies and press releases from the likes of the EPA and the Small Business Administration. White House officials stress that the site was designed by non-taxpayer-funded interns...
...article in this month's issue of Technology Review magazine, Max Essex criticizes research's overemphasis of corporate profit margins and lack of clinical studies in developing countries...
...gallery devoted to "Vanitas" images, the vast majority of the paintings are traditional scenes of hunted game; three modern works--a Max Beckmann, a Georgia O'Keeffe, and an Axel Kesselbohmer--show skulls. Not one seventeenth- or eighteenth- century painting shows any of the other symbols associated with passing time; after such a lengthy label description of the section, their absence is conspicuous. However, in the "Fruit" section and again in the "Trompe I'Oeil" section, there are perfect examples of decaying fruit (one label doesn't even acknowledge its symbolic value) that would have been far more effective...
Herrnstein leaves his wife, Susan; a daughter, Julia Manganaro of Fontana, California; and two sons: Max G. Herrnstein of Tokyo and James R. Herrnstein of Belmont. James Herrnstein is a graduate student and teaching fellow at Harvard...