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Undoubtedly, the government is facing severe budgetary constraints, with expensive overseas wars and costly tax cuts. But, as a group of Nobel Laureates who endorsed John Kerry in the recent Presidential election said, “By reducing funding for scientific research [Bush and his administration] are undermining the foundation of America’s future...
...tenth of the lucky 400. Clinton and Gore struck out, but dozens of Harvard outsiders were still in consideration. Condoleezza Rice, the former Stanford provost who was then helping George W. Bush to secure his presidency; Richard D. Klausner, then the director of the National Cancer Institute; and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan all made...
...York Times since Summers took over the Treasury. He’s gruff, sartorially sloppy, colleagues consider him aggressive, even arrogant. Also, he’s brilliant—one of the sharpest minds in President Clinton’s cabinet. He’s a potential Nobel laureate in economics. And he loves to argue. One gets the impression that he really is on a search for veritas. If he could just keep the back of his shirt tucked...
...their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid a spot on the literary landscape as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is among many admirers who insist that Mo Yan deserves the gong himself. Given the prize committee's distaste for success, that means he'll probably never...
Sakharov, a preeminent Soviet nuclear physicist, became an outspoken critic of human rights violations in the former Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize...