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...Maybe the color of the Nobel Prize medal should be changed from gold to red, white and blue. U.S. researchers swept the science awards for the first time since 1983. But the joy came with a warning from many in the U.S. scientific community: the kind of basic research that won Nobels is no longer getting adequate funding. Without more funds, they argue, U.S. scientific dominance won't last, as other nations become more competitive in these cutting-edge fields...
Kalfus mirrors the postdiluvian upheaval in the U.S. through the battles fought in the Harrimans’ marital war. Both the commentary in Kalfus’ novel and the joy of reading it radiates from this nearly-pornographic voyeurism into the couple’s fights, the epic “blistering argument[s] encompassing all the issues that had brought them to divorce in the first place,” and their underlying emotional dysfunction—“when they watched news of wars on TV, reports from the Balkans or the West Bank, they would think...
...Nick Lampson is the favorite of most oddsmakers to beat the late-starting G.O.P. write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. In southeastern Ohio, former House Administration Committee chairman Bob Ney is retiring after pleading guilty last month to trading favors for campaign contributions from Abramoff. But his handpicked replacement, Joy Padgett, can't shake the taint of scandal. Ney's solidly Republican district favored Bush by 14 percentage points in 2004 but is now polling anywhere from 2% to 14% in favor of Democrat Zack Space...
...catch a lecture by Blum if he returns to campus this year. While a number of the pieces found their inspiration in international politics, many of the works in “The Grande Promenade” took an entirely apolitical approach and instead highlighted the whimsy and joy that can present itself in contemporary art. Perhaps most representative of this are the works done by the “Neensters”—a self-described “still-undefined generation of visual artists,” lead by Greek artists Andreas Angelidakis, Miltos Manetas...
...live alone. I don't have a partner. If you had told me 10 years ago that I'd be okay with that insecurity, I don't know that I would have believed you. But being free and independent, as much as it terrifies me, there's such a joy...