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Organizer Bob Geldof, the bands and the technical staff who made Live Aid [MUSIC, July 22] a reality deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. They united us all for a day and in so doing instilled eternal hope that the people of the world may someday live as one. Michael W. Oliver Seattle...
...unkempt hair. Hulit's Shoe Store, a family business begun in 1929, was--and remains--a fixture for residents, and for the students and faculty of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. The academics bought their desert boots and penny loafers there, and when Princeton's many Nobel prizewinners over the years needed patent-leather shoes for the ceremony in Stockholm, they visited Hulit's too. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was known to browse through the Florsheims...
...emergency, another prominent churchman spoke at a mass funeral service in the township of KwaThema, 35 miles east of Johannesburg, to deliver a message to both black and white South Africans. He was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the black South African who last year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his long struggle against apartheid. Only two weeks before, the dynamic, gray-haired bishop had saved the life of a black suspected of being a police informer after an angry mob had seized the man, set his car ablaze and tried to throw him into the flames...
...Anglican church in 1958 and study for the priesthood. He worked in parishes in Britain and in 1978 was appointed a bishop in Lesotho. That same year he was named general secretary of the 13 million-member South African Council of Churches (SACC). In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his antiapartheid efforts, and this year he became the first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, the church's most important diocese in South Africa...
...segments interacting with cells in a laboratory dish has been studied extensively, an approach with obvious limitations. "A new gene in cell culture can't walk funny or think strange thoughts or do what it had planned to do," says David Baltimore, director of the Whitehead Institute and a Nobel-prizewinning biologist. "You need to trace its course through a living, breathing organism...