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...Joshua Lederberg is the purest of pure scientists. Yet Lederberg's current interests extend into space in a way that pauperizes science fiction. Working under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, he and his Stanford team are designing and building a prototype apparatus that can be landed on, say, Mars or Venus, and can send back information about possible plants, bacteria, viruses or other micro-organisms. Landed gently on the planet's surface, the machine would automatically run out a long tongue with an adhesive surface. This would pick up plants or micro-organisms in the soil and reel them beneath...
...descendants took him at his word Prince Johann Adam bought a slew of Van Dycks and Rubenses, possibly including Rubens' voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close...
...paintings, only 74-including the Venus-can be seen by the public, they hang on the third floor of a building in Vaduz, above the National Tourist Office and the Postage Stamp Museum. And aside from occasionally selling a painting, the prince, whose interests are mostly confined to his investments, pays little heed to his dusty hidden treasure...
Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. A publishing duet, about the islands of Corfu and Rhodes, by the author of The Alexandria Quartet confirms his superlative gift as a travel writer who uses scenery to intensify personal feeling...
...Cathedral. Despite the growing intrusion of realistic detail, Giotto, as late as the 14th century, "did not copy the sky men see, but transmuted it into a sky charged with Christ's presence." But a century later Botticelli plunged into profane art with his sea-born Birth of Venus, and nymphs began competing with angels "and the Unreal with the City...