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...Britain were grateful that Naipaul had already filled a whole bookshelf with essays on those places. They discovered that he had seen the tension between Islam and the West earlier and more intensely than any of them had. Reviewers praised his journalism for being "prophetic." In awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the Swedish Academy drew special attention to Naipaul's travel writing and highlighted his "incorruptible scrutiny." Yet all this fame has come to the wrong V.S. Naipaul...
...encouraged the world's poor women to plant 30 million trees. The other creates incendiary fables of female sexuality and subjugation. They make an odd couple, but last week they were united as Nobel laureates: Kenya's Wangari Maathai for the Peace Prize and Austria's Elfriede Jelinek for Literature. It was the second year in which women won both of the most notable Nobels...
...Using NEOnet], any particular computer is actually responsible for keeping a piece of the database,” said Crick, whose grandfather and namesake won the Nobel Prize in 1962 with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for discovering the double helix structure...
...Friday’s debate “Yeah, I’m worried. I’m worried. I’m worried about our country.” Fifty professors at the Harvard Business School and over 100 economists from other schools—including two Nobel Prize winners—are worried about our country too. That’s why they recently wrote a letter to Bush, slamming him for running up the deficit by recklessly “slashing taxes...
...Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours. In the lunar program, NASA preferred more by-the-book pilots, and Cooper never got a trip to the moon - a loss more to NASA, many space historians believe, than to Cooper. DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double helix structure of DNA; in London. After a stint on the Manhattan Project during World War II, he turned his attention from physics to biology. With his colleague Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear...