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...Harvard professor emeritus netted half of the Nobel Prize for economics yesterday for his research using game theory to help explain a variety of real-world issues. Thomas C. Schelling, who is Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, and also distinguished university professor, emeritus, at University of Maryland is sharing the $1.29 million prize with Israeli-U.S. citizen Robert J. Aumann. The award comes days after Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 won the Nobel Prize in Physics. This prize will be the 43rd Nobel awarded to a member...
...This is not a kick in the shin of any nation, any leader." OLE DANBOLT MJOES, Norwegian Nobel committee chair, denying that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, was a dig at the U.S. over the war in Iraq...
...monks, may bode ill in pastoral settings. They red-flag callings that seem to have been rebound responses to romantic breakups or other traumas and look for unrealistic job expectations (one of Plante's candidates modeled himself after Mother Teresa, down to the year he expected to accept his Nobel Prize). They are especially vigilant for histories of sexual abuse combined with low impulse control regarding alcohol, gambling, sex or anger. Many screeners think the combination may put the candidate at risk of becoming an abuser...
...been nearly 25 years since Drs. Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren showed that the vast majority of peptic ulcers are caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, a discovery that was honored last week with a Nobel Prize. Yet I'm always surprised by how many ulcer sufferers don't realize that their stomach pains can be easily and effectively cured with antibiotics...
TONI MORRISON, 74 Having won the Pulitzer and the Nobel, she continues to write novels as well as teach at Princeton...