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Other recipients were unable to attend. Robert Clark Graham, winner of the Biology Award for his Germinal Choice sperm bank, which only accepts donations from Nobel laureates and Olympic athletes, was conspicuously absent. Dr. Strangelove accepted for him. Economics Prize honoree Michael Milken had a 15 to 20 year previous engagement, so Tammy F. Baker accepted in his stead...
Participants came out of the ceremony ready for the upcoming Nobel Prize announcements. As the disembodied voice of absent Nobel laureate Professor Henry Kendall repeated after each presentation, "Congratulations. Your work is an inspiration...
...damage was not obvious. Since the bolts were about 15 feet above the ground, they could only have been reached by standing on the rickety folding chairs and tables in the sukkah. That would have required a degree of balance and dexterity rare enough when sober, and certainly absent when intoxicated...
...probing whether AT&T's participation in the power-sharing discount plan was at fault -- or is appropriate, given the consequences. AT&T is launching an in- house probe. According to the union representing telephone workers, several technicians who would have responded to the alarms were absent from their posts because, ironically, they were attending a class on new alarm systems...
...then he meets Sachiko. Her husband is a typical "salaryman," continually absent from home. For a while, the monkish American and the lady regard each other at arm's length. But the couple are soon overtaken by enchantment. "I little ghost," she tells him. "Old Japanese story: ghost visit man many many times, many very happy time together. But man's friends much worry. His face more weak, more pale. Ghost eating his heart." Reflects Iyer: "She could hardly have given more eloquent expression to all my unspoken fears...