SHORT TAKES ON THE WORLD OF ARTS&LETTERS AT FSU













Cover Illustration:
Peter Mamatey

Raymond E. Bye, Jr. Vice President For Research - FSU
RAYMOND E. BYE, Jr.
Vice President for Research
Florida State University

Clifton Pailsley (1915-2000)
IN MEMORIAM
CLIFTON PAISLEY
(1915-2000)


FEATURES  
Let's Get Small: Behold, the Nano-World
by Frank Stephenson

A gold rush is on is science and technology today that brings new appreciation for trite phrases about our ever-shrinking world. The key to it all? Thinking small.....
With Sidebar: Ultra-Thin Skins
With Sidebar: Micro Magnets
With Sidebar: Small World, Big Dreams
With Sidebar: The Nano Narrow

Write Connection
by Patrick A. Smith
Short films are on a come-back, say Hollywood trend-watchers. Just in time for would-be writers of "shorts" comes a practical primer on cutting to the chase.
With Sidebar: Ten Years Strong
With Sidebar: Ball in Motion
With Sidebar: Boffo Summer Short

Walter's Ant Castles: A Photo-Essay
by Frank Stephenson

An ant biologist's fieldwork has become a painstaking passion, a tour de force in curiosity and patience that reveals astonishing worlds just beneath our feet.
Photos by Charles Badland

Canterbery Tales
by Maxwell Caskie
What a hot tip? The nation's roaring economy can be chalked up far more to luck than any economic wizardry cooked up by Washington. We're merrily rolling the dice on thin ice, warns a leading economic pulse-taker.

With Sidebar: Wired Capitalism: The End of Geography?
by Andy Lindstrom


With Sidebar: The Pope of Wall Street


  Abstracts - Periscope on Campus Life and Research.

  Sketches - Short takes on the world of Art and Letters at Florida State.