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Each award is decided by separate institutions which form assemblies to select the actual prize recipients. Some prizes (medicine) require Nobel assembly members to remain active in their fields, while others (literature) appoint members for life. The Peace Prize is actually decided by five members of the Norwegian parliament. Nobel Prize winners must be living; there are no posthumous awards. Each year, the Nobel committees distribute nomination forms to an undisclosed number of recipients - past winners, prominent institutions, respected members of the field - who are allowed to choose as many nominees as they want. Self-nomination is not permitted...
...also chipped in seven assists, five boards, three blocks, and two steals in an all-around solid performance that seems to have become typical this season. Northeastern’s top guard, junior Matt Channing, was able to notch 21 points despite shooting only 38-percent from the field. His defensive assignment, Kenyi, was able to get in his face for most of the night, coming away with the ball more than once...
...else would?” he adds. The microbial fuel cell technology Lebônê is using was developed by Peter Girguis, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, but the Lebônê team members are some of the first to take it to the field. “They’ve done 99.9 percent of it,” Edwards says. “The Idea Translation Lab has been helpful in getting them from being students in a class to running a not-for-profit.” The group conducted a successful pilot...
...Deng was no student of the dismal science. He once said, "I am a layman in the field of economics. I proposed China's economic policy of opening to the outside world, but as for the details or specifics of how to implement it, I know very little indeed." But he knew enough to let others lead. The reforms that Deng blessed started in the countryside, where farmers were allowed to sell surplus produce and, in time, were allowed to farm their own land on long leases rather than as part of a commune. "Township and village enterprises" - small firms...
...experts say little concrete action has been taken so far. One reason is the scale of the problem: India is a country of 1.1 billion people and is regularly (and increasingly) targeted by terrorists, but its internal security agency, the Intelligence Bureau (IB), has fewer than 3,000 field operatives. Only 400 of these operatives are assigned to counterterrorism operations...