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Iranian human-rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. A judge who was dismissed from the bench after the 1979 Islamic revolution, she is now a lawyer who works to promote press freedom, spotlight gender inequity and child abuse, and defend dissidents against Iran's theocratic regime. Ebadi, 58, whose memoir Iran Awakening is out this week, spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu about the Nobel's impact, Iran's nuclear ambitions and her daily relaxation ritual...
...tree. For most, free markets unhindered by governmental interference—labor regulations, taxes, and the like—take precedent over old growth forests. Managers do not usually build cost-inefficient solar panels to minimize their company’s environmental impact. They adhere to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous saying that a company’s only “social obligation is to increase its profits.” To them, incantations of the collective good are just sweet-sounding claptrap, and morality is viewed as a matter of personal preference...
...their part. We could be excellent partners with the government. We’d like to help them. Together we could truly make a difference. THC: Do you have any particular idols, people you look up to, respect, and draw inspiration from? What about Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Iran? [Ebadi was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to ever win the Prize.]MM: I don’t know much about political issues in the wider world, but there are women in Pakistan’s history that I respect very much. Fatima...
...students seeking their help.The training involved weekly two-and-a-half hour seminars which covered “Alcohol and the Family,” “Crisis Response, Treatment, and Follow-up,” and a special session on the chemistry of beer drinking given by Nobel prize winner Baird Jr. Research Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach.Each seminar featured guest speakers, ranging from experts such as Herschbach to recovering alcoholics.The DAPA program is the centerpiece of Ryan M. Travia’s first year on the job as Harvard’s director of alcohol...
...witty, often acerbic directness, once noting, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." The concepts in his watershed book, The Affluent Society, became so pervasive that to subsequent generations of readers, "It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations," said Nobel-laureate economist Amartya Sen. "You realize where they came from...