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...Others suspects are believed to have links to the now banned Pakistani terrorist group Lasker-e-Toiba. It attracted recruits from around the world to undergo jihad training at camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. After 9/11, the group sent supporters to fight on the side of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Australian David Hicks, currently held by the U.S. at Guant?namo, is believed to have trained with LeT in Pakistan...
...cannot imagine a job that could have provided me with more satisfaction or a better opportunity to touch the lives of so many people," she wrote on the anniversary. Then last week the columnist was named (along with two Nobel prizewinners) among five recipients of the 1985 Albert Lasker medical research and public service awards. Mary Lasker, 84, who with her late husband Albert established the prestigious honors 40 years ago, presented Landers with a statuette and a $15,000 honorarium "for her 30 years of tireless commitment to improve the physical and emotional health of the American people." Health...
...experiment, it confirmed that sort of throw-away statement in the Watson-Crick model,” said Gund Professor of Neuroscience John Dowling, who sat on the Lasker awards committee between 2000 and 2003. “Many people have talked about this as one of the most beautiful experiments in biology...
...Lasker award has been awarded by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation in three categories—basic medical research, clinical medical research and special achievement—for the last 50 years...
...many people consider it to be very important is that many winners of the Lasker prize have gone on to win the Nobel Prize,” Dowling said, but added that the medical category winners are typically the ones...