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...pictures, and leads in B's. But could Wong win a major part in the biggest Chinese-set film yet to be made? She yearned to play O-Lan, the heroine of Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, a best-seller that won the American novelist the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...method is a combination of several previously discovered techniques, including work done by Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, who won a Nobel prize for their work. Their experiments revealed that different neurons in the visual cortex respond to different stimuli...
...hear a lot in coming months about the health benefits of chips and chocolate. - By Joe Kirwin Chemical Brothers European Commission antitrust police fined three chemical firms €217 million for running a cartel in the market for a widely-used chemical between 1984 and 1999. Dutch firm Akzo Nobel, France's Atofina - now Arkema - and Germany's Hoechst colluded to fix the price of MCAA, used to make food and cosmetics...
...best intellectual case for this argument was made last year by Paul Samuelson, a Nobel prizewinner, a professor emeritus at M.I.T. and one of the most respected economists of all time. Samuelson took aim at the theoretical underpinning of globalization. For its proponents, globalization is the latest proof of the virtues of free trade, for which the case was first made in 1817 by the British economist David Ricardo. Ricardo argued that trade was always beneficial because it encourages nations to specialize in the products at which they are best and import those they are less good...
While Shauman said that “people who go on to be Nobel laureates in the science probably are in that higher tail” of scores on standardized tests, both she and Xie emphasized that individuals can succeed in science even if they don’t perform amazingly well on achievement exams as high school students...