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...Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize - and an Oscar. Hardly a day goes by without major corporations like Wal-Mart announcing new green initiatives. Priuses are still hot, oil is near $100 a barrel and even Detroit is hyping fuel efficiency. With all that attention, global warming is surely set to become one of the biggest issues of the 2008 Presidential campaign, right...
...Sears said. “And we think it made a big difference in giving authority to the acceptance of gay people in the Christian community.” Former recipients of the Freedom of Worship Medal include Coretta Scott King and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust scholar and Nobel laureate. Last night’s ceremony, held at the Chelsea Piers complex on the West Side of Manhattan, also honored Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar, (R-Ind.), TV journalist Bill Moyers, author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, and former national security advisor Brent Scowcroft...
...only thing trendier in Hollywood than three-week stints in rehab and adopting children from developing nations is advocating for the environment. Celebrities ranging from recent Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore ’69 to Leonardo DiCaprio have jumped on the bandwagon, all promoting their own spin on the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the elevated publicity these famous faces bring to this serious issue is beneficial, a great majority of these stars do not live by the standards they promote. Hypocrisy is rampant in today’s environmental movement, and Hollywood...
...leading spokesperson of today’s enviro-chic celebrities is Al Gore, whose face is everywhere from his award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth to Norway where he recently received the Nobel Peace Prize. Many Americans would naturally assume Gore follows the green lifestyle he widely promotes, and they would be wrong. Gore and his wife Tipper, whose children all live elsewhere, reside in a behemoth 20-room mansion outside of Nashville that used nearly 23,000 kilowatt-hours last August, more than twice the annual—yes, annual—energy usage of a typical American home...
Love can be a powerfulmotivator even, it turns out, when the object of your passion is a molecule. Charismatic, enthusiastic biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who won a 1959 Nobel Prize for his discovery of DNA polymerase, the enzyme needed to produce synthetic DNA, credited his research and teaching career to his "love affair with enzymes." In recent years Kornberg, whose work on DNA helped spark the biotechnology revolution, studied polyphosphate--a substance dismissed as useless by colleagues. Kornberg, who lamented the "clannishness" and lack of creativity of many in the scientific community, was convinced that it could...