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...Past winners of the prize include Freeman J. Dyson, physicist and mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Charles H. Townes, UCLA professor and Nobel laureate for physics. The 2006 winner was cosmologist John D. Barrow, who has written in depth on the connection between life and the universe and what scientists may not understand about matter, space and time. Judges of the prize, awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, include leaders from the fields of science and religion...
...years of freedom. As the nation prepares for its first post-independence presidential election on April 9, East Timor's 1 million people are ranked by the U.N. as Southeast Asia's poorest. Eight politicians have announced their candidacies, ranging from populist former resistance fighter Fernando de Araujo to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and current Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta. But even as such democratic rituals play out, the capital Dili has erupted into a battleground for gangs, internal refugees and supporters of a former army commander turned rebel, Alfredo Reinado. Last spring, tensions within the army spread...
...East Timor independence activists José Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo jointly win the Nobel Prize for Peace...
Like many who see so much of our world falling prey to violence and depravity, Lamont University Professor and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya L. Sen is searching for an explanation for how otherwise rational people can turn against their neighbors and commit heinous acts of cruelty.In “Identity and Violence,” his latest book, Sen argues that “violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people.” Using historical examples and a personable style, Sen creates a simple yet powerful discourse on individual choice and identity...
...play hookey from school. I can’t imagine signing a declaration of my willingness to die for any cause—political views on Iraq aside. At 19, as I ponder my current toughest decisions—whether to take a class with one Nobel laureate or another—I hope that something I’m learning here will prepare me for the kind of decisions and hardship that we must all face at some point...