Max dragged the boat onto the beach, placed a group of large stones around it, and tied its lead to the biggest tree he could find.

NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

Led by United States expat trainers Percy T Croffle-Siame and Max Rodman, both former college athletes, the small group classes provide an opportunity to meet other travellers and locals.

BBC: Lunge with the locals in Buenos Aires

Uncle Sam will hire 600, 000 people over the next four years, a 50% increase over the previous four, reports Max Stier of the Washington-based Partnership for Public Service, a group that promotes government jobs.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The group of core participants already includes actress Sienna Miller, PR guru Max Clifford, serving MPs, and Christopher Shipman, son of mass murderer Harold Shipman.

BBC: Hacking: Charlotte Church and Jacqui Hames witness bid

To study them, Martin Dresler, of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, in Munich, and his colleagues recruited a group of what are known as lucid dreamers.

ECONOMIST: Reading the brain