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...citizen of India, Sen received the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics for his work in welfare economics. He has been awarded more than 60 honorary degrees, including the Bharat Ratna—the highest honor awarded by the president of India...
...ordinary, visible light. But stars and galaxies shine with all sorts of other radiation as well. For their work in probing these otherwise invisible signals from space Raymond Davis, 87 of the University of Pennsylvania; Masatoshi Koshiba, 76, of the University of Tokyo; and the Italian-born U.S. citizen Riccardo Giacconi, 71, of Associated Universities Inc. in Washington, D.C, each got a share of the Nobel prize in Physics announced in Stockholm Tuesday...
...citizen I demand a better excuse than revenge or oil for the prosecution of a war that is likely to do more harm than good,” he said, “that will destabilize not only the region but the world for years to come, and that, worst of all, will confirm for all the world to see our country’s reputation as an irrational and undisciplined bully who acts not because it ought, but because it can. We make up the rules, so it seems, as we please...
...RETURNED. TAKESHI TERAKOSHI, 53, Japanese citizen who in 1963 vanished with two of his uncles while fishing off the Noto peninsula in the Sea of Japan, and who was revealed in 1987 to be alive in North Korea; for a week-long visit to Japan as part of a labor union delegation. Terakoshi, whose mother has visited him in North Korea 15 times since 1987, denies having been abducted, saying he and his uncles were rescued by a North Korean ship. It is his first trip home since disappearing...
...voice bellows not from some bearded firebrand but from Sumbal, a five-year-old girl in a bubble-gum-pink smock. After her speech, delivered with a child's pure-spun rage, Sumbal encounters TIME's correspondent, an American citizen. Trembling, she hides behind her teacher's legs and tries to bury her face in the baggy folds of his salwar kameez. This is her worst nightmare: after memorizing her diatribe against blood-thirsty Americans, one of them has come stalking up the ravines after...