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Nurturing Nobel Winners...
...essay on geneticist Mario Capecchi eloquently described his remarkable life [Oct. 22]. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded his innovative research for nearly 40 years. As the Essay noted, when Capecchi submitted a grant application for studies that included the work leading to the Nobel Prize, the group of scientists evaluating the proposal expressed skepticism about the experiments. Nevertheless, the evaluators gave the application an outstanding overall score, and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded the grant in 1981. The flexibility of the NIH grant system made it possible for Capecchi to use the funds...
...however, has yet to take that responsible line. Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have asked UBS to tell its Chinese client to “halt its operations in Sudan or implement a rigorous corporate governance policy that would mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
...There, you can sign a letter to UBS chairman Marcel Ospel stating that you will not apply for a job or internship at UBS until the investment bank cleans up its act in Sudan. Specifically, Ospel must comply with the reasonable recommendations set forth by Wiesel and his fellow Nobel laureates. Tell Ospel that as long as he chooses to profit from genocide, he won’t be able to profit from...
That last week’s Nobel Peace Prize went to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore ’69 emphasizes that a cooperative response to global warming is a priority worldwide. The U.S. must recognize this and practice the environmentalism that it preaches. When the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change begins in Bali on Dec. 3, I hope that President Bush is there free of the specter of Byrd-Hagel—and that Congress also recognizes the need for us take a global lead, accept an emissions cap, and make sure that emissions...