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DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS 212-679-6800 www.doctorswithoutborders.org From Africa to Asia to Latin America, from AIDS to malaria to acute starvation, the medical staff of this Nobel Peace Prize--winning organization has seen--and treated...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
...that students are so quick to label fellow academics with 1600s on their SATs as “exceptional” but not give athletes a chance to earn that title. Harvard is not an institution that focuses exclusively on academics; Harvard breeds an inordinate share of scholars and Nobel laureates, but it also promotes journalism, musicianship, politics, as well as athletics. The College admissions office should stick with the status quo and not alienate athletes as Lowell tried to alienate Jews back in 1920s. Athletes’ intensive work deserves to be appreciated and accepted in this community just...
...African American Studies is very broad and interdisciplinary, and so we look for candidates reflective of that breadth.” She added that the Institute invites scholars at different stages of their academic careers.This year’s fellows join a list of Institute alumni that includes 1986 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to be honored in literature, and current Thomas Professor of African and African American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Phyllis S. Taoua, a scholar of Francophone literature at the University of Arizona who said she plans to write her second book while a Du Bois...
...Bernanke is in favor of inflation targeting,” said Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow ’44-’47, an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT who taught Bernanke as a graduate student there. “Greenspan was always against that...