I knew the risks when I asked the question, but the reward was too great. I was in the laboratory of a new university in the Persian Gulf. Four young women, each wearing a full burka, were working on a computer engineering project. PC boards covered the table, and laptop screens glowed with source code, yet the situation’s dynamics were clear. Computing was the guest at the feast, incorporated ...

rRNA and Poly-Hydroxybutyrate Dynamics in Bioreactors Subjected to Feast and Famine Cycles Dominic Frigon,† Gerard Muyzer, Mark van Loosdrecht, and Lutgarde Raskin* Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, and Environmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Scott Fitzgerald, a world-renowned American writer, suffered from various health problems, particularly alcohol dependence, and died suddenly at the age of 44. According to descriptions in A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald had episodes resembling complex partial seizures, raising the possibility of temporal lobe epilepsy.