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The firesale of a Black Square should be scandal enough. But a host of other questions arise. There is, for instance, the question of the "other Maleviches." The bank's collection was formed in secrecy and has never been fully exhibited. But art historians who helped build it say it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dark Deal in Russia | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

Historians heatedly debate who is the best ex-President, but if Clinton keeps it up, there may soon be no argument over who is the worst. Al Gore, on the other hand, is a model ex-Vice President. Minutes after the Inauguration, he quietly repaired to a modest Tudor house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Buddy Movie Goes Bad | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

It's a dark secret that none of the campus recruiters or the Office of Career Services staff will tell you, but if you want to be a titan of the business world one day, you certainly don't need to spend your early twenties locked on the 38th floor...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, | Title: Take Stock Of Your Options | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

All appearances to the contrary, BILL GATES is sort of a geek. With billions of dollars in pocket cash, his hobbies might reasonably include small-country collecting or skyscraper demolition, but instead the founder of Microsoft prefers good ol' granny-playin' bridge. Naturally, he is not just a hobbyist but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 4, 2000 | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

SELF-REPLICATORS To build anything of any size, you need a lot of assemblers, and constructing them one by one is expensive and laborious. So most assemblers will need the additional ability to make copies of themselves. To make a skyscraper, for example, a handful of assemblers would first clone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Nanotechnology? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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