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...society like ours, or any society, has to rely on the objectivity of science and doctors and information in some cases warning about the potential dangers that we face,” said signatory and Nobel Laureate Eric S. Chivian, a Harvard Medical School professor and the director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment. “Any society who ignores its scientists and doctors is heading for disaster...
...would have voted if I knew and trusted the candidates." Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, criticizing the government's barring of more than 2,000 candidates from parliamentary elections...
...Nearly a year later, his worst fear may be coming true. If a virus, as Nobel laureate Peter Medawar described it, "is a piece of bad news wrapped in a protein," the past few weeks have had all the bad news the world can handle as avian influenza has broken out in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Already, the disease appears to have jumped the species barrier, killing at least four people, and the virus is suspected of causing another 10 deaths. Asia has stared down avian-flu outbreaks before, notably in Hong Kong in 1997 when the city...
...second answer is that if you want smaller government, you have to "starve the beast." Larger deficits increase the pressure for spending cuts. President Bush has actually said that deficits are a good thing because they put Congress in a spending "straitjacket." An essay by three conservative economists, including Nobel prizewinner Gary Becker, published in the Wall Street Journal in October, ranked starving the beast ahead of the Laffer Curve as a reason to cut taxes. But there is even less evidence that starving the beast works in real life than there is for supply-side theories. Two rounds...
CHARGED. GEORGE RYAN, 69, ex-Republican Governor of Illinois who was nominated this year for the Nobel Peace Prize for commuting the sentences of the state's death-row prisoners to life because of his doubts about the death penalty; on 18 criminal counts of racketeering conspiracy, mail and tax fraud and making false statements, in what prosecutors allege was a "pattern of corruption" during 12 years of his political career; in Chicago...