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...worse than the one that took place in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island...
Last Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee rightly recognized the global significance of climate change when it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore ’69 and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-established committee of scientists conducting research on climate change. We hope the spotlight of the award will give activists the momentum they need to finally catalyze the world into actively combating climate change. While awareness of the critical issue of climate change has grown over the last several years, some in the United States and the world at large?...
...times its normal level on Feb. 1, 2007, coinciding with Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize nomination. But since then, the volume of searches on "global warming" have dropped off precipitously to the lowest levels in the last year save for a brief recovery in advance of the actual award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Gore last week...
...Maskin left Harvard in 2000 to become a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He said he appreciates the additional academic freedom that the institute affords him, but added that he “enjoys teaching students as much as ever.” The award came as a surprise to Internet prognosticators, most of whom did not consider the theorists likely to win. “Most of the people who speculate know very little about it,” said Furer Professor of Economics Oliver D. Hart. Mechanism design theory emerged from the debate...
...earned NEISA Sailor of the Week honors for his effort, the second time this year that he’s garnered the award...