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A delightful piece reviews a newly published collection of obituaries culled from the New York Times . The piece argues that reading early 20 th century obits reminds us how unheroic modern times are, and insists that British obits are more fun: English wit finds its highest expression in archly noting others' deaths.
Little is known of his life, early or late, and his pictures (37 in the Wadsworth show, carefully culled from a total of perhaps 170) are the sole evidence of his preoccupations.
The British Broadcasting Corp. reports that microbiologists at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow have developed a special yogurt made from bacteria culled from the saliva and guts of Russian cosmonauts.
Seventy paintings have been culled from the roughly 200 in the Amsterdam treasure trove--the van Gogh family collection, passed on from Vincent to Theo and eventually housed in an extraordinarily popular museum in 1973.
The majors all front the news that scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins are about to publish reports of separate successful experiments in which cells culled from the very early stages of a human embryo have, in a test tube, been grown into undifferentiated cells that could be used to grow various kinds of human tissue.