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...Lasker award has been awarded by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation in three categories—basic medical research, clinical medical research and special achievement—for the last 50 years...
Tribe joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1968 and quickly entered the spotlight as an eloquent advocate for liberal causes. He has argued three dozen cases in front of the Supreme Court—famously representing Vice President Albert J. Gore Jr. ’69 in the December 2000 Florida recount dispute...
...Legco is guaranteed to be noisier after the election of Long Hair Leung and a pro-democracy former radio talk-show host, Albert Cheng. Leung campaigned both for democracy and for the government to do more for the poor. He says he has no intention of dressing up?his wardrobe consists of Che Guevara T shirts and Teva sandals?and the day after the election, Leung was at the gates of the main government-office building protesting about polling irregularities. Instead of getting arrested, he was invited in. Quaffing a beer at a bar the next day, he chuckled...
...film's scientific approach to life's mysteries may rile some religious conservatives. One onscreen participant, Columbia philosopher David Albert, has already complained that his remarks, which appear to support the film's spiritual premise, were taken out of context. (The filmmakers deny it.) Yet for its fans, the film is striking a chord. "There are a lot of people in metaphysical closets out there," says Arntz...
...your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan, Albert Schweitzer said--which raises a question for our times: What do we lose if Sunday becomes just like any other day? Lawmakers in Virginia got to spend part of their summer break debating that question, thanks to a mistake they made last winter when they inadvertently revived a "day of rest" rule; hotels and hospitals and nuclear power plants would have had to give workers a weekend day off or be fined $500. After a special legislative session was convened to fix the error, Virginia's workers, like the rest...