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While the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s claim to fame is arguably as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Sakharov later gained notoriety for his political dissidence against communism...
...years of work in the country, citing the Afghan government's refusal to investigate the shooting deaths of five aid workers in northwest Badghis province in June. A written statement issued in Kabul also blamed increased safety risks and the U.S. military's "co-opting" of relief efforts. The Nobel-prizewinning organization, which sends doctors and nurses into conflict zones, has withdrawn from only two other countries in its 33-year history, Ethiopia and North Korea; this is the first time they have withdrawn for security reasons. Kenny Gluck, the group's operational director, called the withdrawal "a very painful...
DIED. EDWARD B. LEWIS, 81, Nobel-prizewinning geneticist; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif. Using the lowly fruit fly, the Caltech professor was the first to explain how genes control the growth of a fertilized egg into a fully developed embryo. Further research has shown that the same mechanisms are at work in almost all animals, including humans...
Jimmy Carter’s Nobel lets him say whatever he wants. (And saying Bush misled the American people—wow, that’s pretty hot stuff. Kudos to the convention’s planners for managing to make even so simple a factual criticism as this taboo for anyone but a former president...
Krauthammer may claim that Reagan won the cold war, but in 1990, two years after the Gipper left office, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Russian reformer who presided so masterfully over the Soviet Union's demise. MORT PAULSON Silver Spring...