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...This trend is likely to persist, in part because it isn't just wealth that's moving from West to East. Each time manufacturing and services are outsourced to Asia, knowledge, technology and skills are also transferred. Professor Richard Smalley, a Nobel-Prizewinning chemist at Rice University, estimated that by 2010, 90% of all Ph.Ds in physical science and engineering may be living in Asia. With economic prowess comes geopolitical power. For many countries, exports to China have replaced exports to the U.S. as engines of growth?one reason why a longtime U.S. ally like South Korea is cozying...
...seems like now if you haven’t already published a novel or won a Nobel prize, you’re at a disadvantage,” Coakley said...
WANGARI MAATHAI The Kenyan M.P., an environmentalist, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. I propose Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state. The choice is an inspiration, especially for girls, who can believe that one day they can make it. Her election lifts a cloud. I'd also select Costa Rica's President, Oscar Arias Snchez, who has pursued peace in his region, and Burmese opposition leader and jailed dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who is not breaking under pressure the rest of us will never have to face...
...irrational" beliefs correspond to our fears of the unknown, the unknowable and the unstoppable - of disease, death and natural disaster. Although Wolpert is a passionate promoter of science, he still recognizes that religion has its benefits and that in some things "reason will never triumph over superstition." The Nobel-prizewinning physicist Niels Bohr once explained why he kept a horseshoe nailed to his wall. It was not because he believed it would bring him good luck, but because he'd been told it would do so even if he didn't believe it. "How can one argue with such logic...
...people who are trying to promote human rights inside the country. I feel [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad and President Bush are like two blades of a scissor.”Given the U.S. government’s ability to ignore the abuses of its allies, writes Shirin Ebadi, Nobel laureate and human rights activist, “It is hard not to see the Bush administration’s focus on human rights violations in Iran as a cloak for its larger strategic interests.” According to Ebadi, “The possibility of a foreign military attack?...