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Even before her son turned two, Sherry Lipscomb noticed that he wasn't like other boys. When she took him shopping, he would go gaga at sparkly dresses. He would toss his baby blanket around his head like a wig and prance on the balls of his feet. Around age 3, he announced one day that when he married his friend Emily, they would both wear red wedding gowns at the ceremony. Yet, says Mom, her child "was still a little boy to me at the time...
...anymore. After struggling with their six-year-old's nonconforming gender behavior for years, Sherry and Paul Lipscomb decided a few months ago to treat their little one like a girl, at least at home. In kindergarten last year, he was Zachary, but after school, she was Aurora--Rori for short--a name the Lipscombs say their child chose in honor of the princess in Sleeping Beauty. Over the summer, when the child asked to have pierced ears and announced to neighbors, "I'm a girl," the Lipscombs came to believe that it was wrong not to "let Aurora express...
...awards were presented by four winners of the real Nobel Prize: Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon Glashow, who wore his medal to the event: Baird Professor of Science Dudley Herschbachi Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus William Lipscomb and Richard Roberts of New England Biolabs...
...laureates from Harvard University Name Prize and Year Robert C. Merton Economic Sciences, 1997 Elias J. Corey Chemistry, 1990 Ramsey F. Norman Physics, 1989 Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry, 1986 Nicolaas Bloembergen Physics, 1981 David H. Hubel Physiology/Medicine, 1981 Baruj Benacerraf Physiology/Medicine, 1980 Steven Weinberg Physics, 1979 William N. Lipscomb Chemistry, 1976 Wassily Leontief Economic Sciences, 1973 The Official Web site for the Nobel prizes
...associate professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine Michelene Mathews Roth as well as MIT professor Jerome Lettvin. The mock conference featured a uniformed umpire--employed by HMO Black to arbitrate patient-practitioner disputes--and a videotaped testimonial from Lawrence professor of chemistry emeritus William N. Lipscomb, also a Nobel laureate...