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...Bilmes argues in her new book “The Three Trillion Dollar War,” with economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, this price tag does not take into account the long-term and macroeconomic costs of the war. Her estimate includes decades of future veterans’ compensation payouts; oil price hikes as a result of supply disruption; and the loss not only to families but to the economy when productive Americans are injured or die young...
...former denizen of Harvard, I’ve had to learn that a sense of reality doesn’t always flourish in elite institutions,” Ignatieff wrote, concluding, “Bus drivers can display a shrewder grasp of what’s what than Nobel Prize winners.” Ignatieff’s old Harvard colleagues said the article perplexed and disappointed them. In an article billed as an apology, Ignatieff seemed to spend a lot of time attributing responsibility to those other than himself. “What I found strange was that...
...Simon & Schuster; 566 pages), an experiment in retelling the story of World War II using only brief anecdotes and snippets of primary sources--quotations, diaries, speeches, newspaper articles--placed in chronological order with a minimum of historical commentary. Human Smoke begins, for example, with a remark made by Alfred Nobel in August 1892: "On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops." The dramatic irony is rich...
Geoengineering has long been the province of kooks, but as the difficulty of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has become harder to ignore, it is slowly emerging as an option of last resort. The tipping point came in 2006, when the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen published an editorial examining the possibility of releasing vast amounts of sulfurous debris into the atmosphere to create a haze that would keep the planet cool. "Over the past couple of years, it's gone from an outsider thing to something that is increasingly discussed," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution...
...study in question, which was published in Nature in 2001, investigated the connection between the olfactory and nervous systems of mice, but is not a part of the work recognized by Buck’s Nobel Prize...