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...rights activist Rigoberta Menchu says she plans to run for president of Guatemala this fall. If elected, she will be the country's first female head of state, as well as the first Maya to hold the office. Menchu is no stranger to accomplishment. In 1992 she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work defending indigenous peoples. She wouldn't be the first Peace Prize winner to make the leap to politics...
...don’t expect the resources to help you do so. The ancient walls of the Bodleian Library house a less than inspiring collection. Last year, some departmental libraries had to cancel their LexisNexis subscriptions due to budget shortfalls. And if you have visions of debates with famous Nobel Prize winners, expect instead to be taught in a lecture hall by an apathetic post...
...longer synonymous with the Nobel Prize or the color beige, Stockholm is emerging as a capital of cool, and its name is now increasingly bandied about in the same breath as London, Tokyo, Paris and New York City. Venture into SoFo on Södermalm, on the capital's south island in the Baltic Sea, and you'll see why: once a working-class district, these days the streets south of Folkungagatan (hence SoFo) attract a young, creative crowd who come here to relax, refuel and spend their kronor in an eclectic array of shops. As the word spreads, more...
...massive expansion into Allston.The choice of Faust also seems to run counter to the desire of some search committee members who were looking for a leader with deep science ties. With research slated to be a primary focus of the proposed Allston campus, both Thomas R. Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Hyman, who holds a professorship at the Harvard Medical School, were considered strong candidates.While Faust has no scientific background, Barbara J. Grosz, dean of science at Radcliffe, said that the Radcliffe dean has an impressive amount knowledge...
...year's An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore turned a wonky PowerPoint presentation on global warming into the third-highest-grossing documentary of all time; it has earned some $45 million so far. With the film up for two Oscars this month and Gore a nominee for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for mobilizing a worldwide crusade, the Al juggernaut just keeps picking up steam...