Word: nobelity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scientist who can figure out why Type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant will probably be a candidate for a Nobel Prize. It's not a simple consequence of being overweight. Many obese people are not insulin resistant, and not everyone who is insulin resistant is overweight. Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., believe that at least part of the answer lies not in the pancreas but in the liver. In a study of mice published in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature, scientists identified a protein that tells the liver to favor the metabolism of fat over...
Jimmy Carter has always been proud of his breadth of achievement: nuclear engineer, farmer, U.S. President, humanitarian and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Now, with The Hornet's Nest, his novel about the Revolutionary War, he has turned to fiction. The reviews were gently tough, but speaking with TIME's Massimo Calabresi, Carter showed that, as always, he's ready for a fight...
...watching. And though she was later convicted of defaming the Islamic Republic, given a two-year suspended sentence and temporarily barred from practicing law, the world has been watching ever since - which is one reason why Ebadi, 56, will be in Oslo this week to receive the 2003 Nobel Prize for Peace. She is being honored as Iran's human-rights champion - a defender of political prisoners, oppressed women, abused children - and though she shuns politics, the award gives a needed boost to the freedom struggle in Iran. Despite high hopes raised by the election of moderate President Mohammed Khatami...
...fugitive of another kind, a pre-Marxist socialist visionary who traveled across provincial France in the 1840s, preaching a gospel of class justice and the liberation of women. In The Way to Paradise (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 373 pages) Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, onetime presidential hopeful and perennial Nobel candidate, lightly fictionalizes their stories in alternating chapters, portraits of two literally kindred souls in revolt against the horsewhips and hypocrisy of the bourgeois order. Both of them rejected the world as they found it--repressed, greedy, deaf to the higher (or lower) impulses. Each of them died with hands...
...fundamental human rights no matter where they occur. More than two dozen cases have been filed against firms doing business in developing countries, although to date no judgments have been awarded. Corporations doing business in Burma have come under particular pressure because of protests by the country's Nobel prizewinning opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest. Most U.S. companies heeded her call in the 1990s to sever ties with Burma because foreign investment lends legitimacy and economic support to the junta. In 1997, Congress outlawed all new U.S. investment there, and President Bush imposed further...