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...revitalized urban economics to become a dynamic field,” University Chicago Professor Gary S. Becker wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson Saturday. Glaeser “is clearly one of the most creative of all economists,” added Becker, winner of the 1992 Nobel prize in economics...
...getting on with fixing the country." But with the government struggling to bring economic growth, the clamor for change continues. On May 15, protesters marched in the southern city of Lagos. "The protest was to try and check the dictatorial tendencies of this regime," said Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who helped organize the march and was briefly detained by police who broke it up. "When dialogue is missing, you have monologue." In Yelwa there was not much of either last week. Most of the surviving residents have fled, leaving a few hundred Muslim men and a handful...
...state bonds over 10 years. The California funds would dwarf federal grants, which have stalled at about $17 million a year for human embryonic research since Bush restricted funding to a few dozen pre-existing stem-cell lines. Only 19 of those turned out to be available. Says Stanford Nobel prizewinner Paul Berg: "California is paving the way for a revolt in a lot of other states...
...nation's most forceful disease-advocacy groups. They hired a clutch of sophisticated lawyers and political consultants to draft the measure and conduct polls. They enlisted allies from Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, Parkinson's and other disease-advocacy groups and spent $2.5 million gathering signatures for the initiative. Ten Nobel prizewinners have endorsed the measure, including David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology, and Berg, who created the first recombinant DNA molecule. Behind the scenes, Silicon Valley venture capitalists are backing what is expected to be a $20 million campaign...
...serving on the Supreme Court, in Congress and in presidential cabinets. Surely, some of them are aware that African-Americans lead or teach at prestigious colleges and universities, are chief executives of Fortune 500 companies, have been chosen as Miss America and have won Oscars and Emmys, Pulitzers and Nobel Prizes...