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...succeeded in brokering cease-fires with 17 of Burma's armed, rebellious tribes. And when he was elevated to Prime Minister 14 months ago, he announced a "road map to democracy" that envisaged a new constitution and the first national elections since 1990, and a possible reconciliation with detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta barely made a step down that path to peace, but Suu Kyi told U.N. envoy to Burma Razali Ismail in March that Khin Nyunt was someone she could deal with. After that endorsement, some residents of Rangoon started calling the Prime...
Former Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shimon Peres conveyed a message of hope for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a the Institute of Politics (IOP) yesterday...
Maathai, 64, founder of the Green Belt Movement, says the Nobel committee "is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war: managing our natural resources." She has inspired devotion but also controversy, suggesting that AIDS is a biological weapon that the West planted in Africa to wipe out the black race...
DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA; in London. With his colleague (and frequent adversary) Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double-spiral structure. Watson, Crick and Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...Procera System, developed by Nobel Biocare, a leader in dental prosthetics, changes all that. The keys are software that makes it possible to design a patient's prosthesis in advance and a plastic surgical guide that fits over the gums and enables the surgeon to place the implants precisely without splaying open the gums, thus reducing healing time and the risk of infection. The surgery takes only an hour under local anesthesia. "This is revolutionary," says Abraham Ingber of Bethesda, Md., one of 20 U.S. prosthedontists working with the system. The company plans to launch Procera nationwide in the first...