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...long been bugging him. Why, he wondered, couldn't all those tiny components--transistors, resistors, capacitors--in TI's electronic gadgetry be created out of a single block of material instead of separately wired parts? By September, he was ready to show his skeptical bosses just such an integrated circuit, or microchip. Last week Kilby's long-ago summer's tinkering won science's ultimate accolade: a Nobel Prize for Physics...
Kilby, now 76 and largely retired, was understandably surprised by the belated honor. "The integrated circuit didn't have much new physics in it," the 6-ft. 6-in., plainspoken inventor said with a shrug to reporters who gathered outside his door. But the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences thought otherwise. Awarding Kilby half the 2000 physics prize (total value: $915,000), it noted that his chip created nothing less than a revolution in solid-state physics, not to mention a $231 billion worldwide industry for the microchips that are the heart of today's electronic wizardry, from computers...
...judged even more severely. His statement that we have to stand by Israel got a "Truth." But his follow-up, "We need to reach out to modern Arab nations as well" drew a big "False Statement." Either Bush was lying or the Israeli software was trying to short-circuit any pan-Arab sentiment...
Such a response would effectively punish Zadvydas for the circumstances of his birth. A more reasonable response was taken by the 9th Circuit in deciding the case of Kim Ho Ma, a Cambodian immigrant who served a prison term for manslaughter. The U.S. has no repatriation agreement with Cambodia, so there is no reasonable probability that Ma will ever be returned. Rather than keep him in prison forever, or until Cambodia relents, the appeals court interpreted immigration law so as to require the INS to release him subject to parole-like requirements, including regular meetings with officers and strict travel...
...hope the Supreme Court will adopt the latter view of an immigrant's rights under the Constitution and the law. As the 5th Circuit noted, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights mandates that no person shall suffer "arbitrary arrest and detention." It would be a shame if the U.S. were to inflict such punishment on human beings simply because they have fallen through the cracks of a state-centered world...