The aim of the present study was to compare electrolyte excretion in urine samples collected over different time periods, in comparison with a 24-hour urine sample collection considered as the gold standard method.
They were written after Wallace's last collection, "Consider the Lobster," was readied for press, in 2005.
The singer has about 8,000 works – some of which he hangs in his penthouse in Atlanta, Georgia – in a private collection considered one of the finest in the world.
The auction features items from the Barbier-Mueller collection, considered one of the most valuable pre-Columbian collections in private hands.
As tastes have evolved, new emphasis has been given to parts of the collection considered insignificant years ago but since rediscovered.
John Brook Marriott, a Briton who for many years watched over the queen's bulging private stamp collection, considered one of the world's richest, died on July 3 at Godalming, Surrey.
Mr. Rubin, Ms. Haverbusch's brother and caretaker of the collection, considered the question of whether there was a noticeable difference in the paintings, once Ms. Haverbusch was told she had breast cancer.
"Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina," which runs from Sunday through June 9 in Washington, includes 118 works on paper borrowed from that Vienna museum's collection, considered one of the best in the world.
Listen to David Foster Wallace reading his essay collection "Consider the Lobster," with its ubiquitous show-stealing asides: at a certain point, his voice is unnaturally distant, the result of a production trick intended to represent the small type of a footnote.
An author, editor, anthologist and ardent accumulator who died in March at 84, Mr. Blackbeard is widely credited with helping save the American newspaper comic strip from the scrap heap, amassing a collection considered the most comprehensive ever assembled.
