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...million readers each day as Ann Landers. "I cannot imagine a job that could have provided me with more satisfaction or a better opportunity to touch the lives of so many people," she wrote on the anniversary. Then last week the columnist was named (along with two Nobel prizewinners) among five recipients of the 1985 Albert Lasker medical research and public service awards. Mary Lasker, 84, who with her late husband Albert established the prestigious honors 40 years ago, presented Landers with a statuette and a $15,000 honorarium "for her 30 years of tireless commitment to improve the physical...
...pledge, many from Cornell, Caltech and M.I.T. They contend that Star Wars research is high-tech hocus-pocus that will escalate the arms race. Some scientists suggest that because the protest has been centered at elite universities, SDI research is being done at less prestigious places. Huffs Princeton's Nobel Physicist Philip Anderson: "People who are hungry and need funding are going to lap up the money. They're out there, people from East Podunk Univerity, while the first-raters are signing the pledge...
...midst of all this sound, fury and fund raising, Geldof has been dubbed "St. Bob" by the press. He has been denounced by Britain's splenetic right-wing Member of Parliament, Enoch Powell, as a "crypto-imperialist" and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Certainly Geldof s lively penchant for the vernacular would make for a salty acceptance speech in Oslo, but any wishful, wistful speculation about the award's being grabbed by a rocker should not steer clear of the main point. Rock music, the most formidable force in Western popular culture, found a focus...
...Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spent her birthday on Sunday under house arrest in Rangoon. Over the past 16 years she has been detained for a total of nine years and eight months 1,350 Number of political prisoners in Burma, according to Amnesty International...
David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in 1975 for his discovery of reverse transcriptase, a key mechanism in the reproduction of retroviruses such...