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Gates, who says Leonardo has always been a personal hero, is now letting the world glimpse his treasure. In a stunning exhibition titled "Codex Leicester: A Masterpiece of Science" at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, Leonardo's precious sheets are beautifully displayed in climate-controlled glass cases, illuminated only intermittently to protect the ancient ink and paper, while skilled docents use working models to repeat Leonardo's experiments. At nearby computer terminals, museumgoers view digitized images of the manuscript close up, reading English translations alongside Leonardo's Italian, zeroing in on specific drawings and flipping back...
...critical question for investors then: Why bother sending precious greenbacks to so-called emerging markets when there's a risk the trip will be one way? In fact, why bother with foreign stocks at all, including those in developed markets like Germany and Japan...
Connecting to an online service these days is a cruel mixture of luck and prayer, especially when you're competing with your teenage kids for that precious phone line. NewsCatcher, however, delivers stock prices, sports scores and headlines via a wireless paging system that works without a modem. ($149; Global Village Communication...
...world. It has been host to many speakers of first-rate intellect who came to impart their knowledge and wisdom to the students. Mel Gibson doesn't belong here; he belongs in People magazine. Shame on the Graduate School of Education for bringing him here and wasting Harvard's precious resources. And shame on the students who went to see him and are embarrassed to admit that the emperor is wearing no clothes. --Justin Elliot Jones...
Against the background of the violence in Jerusalem this fall, The Dome of the Rock (Rizzoli; $60) offers a bit of blissful repose: a stunning series of photographs of an Islamic holy place that shares a spot equally precious to Christians and Jews. Another great city forms the centerpiece of St. Petersburg: Architecture of the Tsars (Abbeville; $95). Peter the Great founded it in 1703 as Russia's "window to the West"; after the hiatus of Soviet rule, that window is open again and marvelous to see. Back to Mandalay: Burmese Life, Past and Present (Abbeville; $55) captures contemporary people...