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As George Bush prepared to attend Emperor Hirohito's funeral in February, a top aide alerted him to a problem that would once have been considered unworthy of presidential attention. Since Japanese furniture makers are eager for tropical hardwoods, officials in western Brazil hoped that Tokyo would finance the paving...
Although Altman and Cech did not collaborate directly, each benefited from the other's advances. "Like a Ping-Pong match, the ball went from one to the other," according to Bertil Andersson, a member of the Nobel Committee. Cech heard of the award while in Boston accepting another prize. "I...
Atomic clocks are the world's most accurate timepieces and have important applications in navigation and communication systems. These clocks have also been used to make direct measurements of continental drift, coordinate astronomical observations and test the ability of earth's gravity to slow down time. (It does so at...
The reluctant laureate was honored for pathbreaking work in the early 1940s that laid the foundation for econometrics, which uses mathematical models to study the behavior of an economy. "Every time you open a newspaper and see an analysis of economic trends," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the economics- prize...
The book, published by Harper & Row this month, confirms long-circulated reports of King's philandering. According to Abernathy, on the night before the murder of King on April 4, 1968, he consorted with one woman in a private Memphis home, with a second -- a woman legislator from Kentucky -- in...