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...wish you had chosen Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore for raising the world's awareness of the dangers caused by global warming and climate change. We must all act together and pool resources to save the planet. Jim Victa Hipolito, Kawit, The Philippines...
...wish you had chosen Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore for raising the world's awareness of the dangers caused by global warming and climate change. We must all act together and pool resources to save the planet. Jim Victa Hipolito, KAWIT, THE PHILIPPINES...
...call for brotherly love, the winning entry is hardly alone (Austria: "Land of mountains, land on streams, land of fields, land of cathedrals"; Canada: "True patriot love in all thy sons command"). Admittedly countries like Norway and India do better than most with the same elements, but they had Nobel laureates (Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Rabindranath Tagore respectively) writing their lyrics. And if some nations have tended to whip up enthusiasm with a ribald reference or two (the now decertified second verse of the German national anthem can read like a gleeful celebration of sex and drunkenness), others rely on bombs...
BEFORE ACCEPTING THE Nobel Peace Prize last month in Oslo, Al Gore called Bert Bolin, in part to thank the trailblazing climatologist for starting the process. In 1959, Bolin told federal scientists that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would rise 25% from 1850 to 2000. Thirty years later, as the first chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--which shared the 2007 Nobel with Gore--Bolin oversaw reports that led to such landmark agreements as the Kyoto Protocol, which called on industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels...
Harvard researchers have produced countless scientific breakthroughs, from developing surgical anesthesia in 1846 to creating new lines of embryonic stem cells in 2004. But cutting-edge research is not limited to the University’s Nobel Prize-winners or top-flight faculty—many undergrads are pursuing high-level scientific research every day. This week, the Crimson takes a look at five students who are tackling topics ranging from sustainable development in the Middle East to flying robotic insects...