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...North Korea ( A ) went on Ritalin. ( B ) proposed Idi Amin for a posthumous Nobel Prize. ( C ) fired its longtime p.r. firm...
...encouraging clue by delivering a speech with a reformist message. He announced a seven point "roadmap for democracy" that envisaged a new constitution and the first national elections since 1990, when the junta overturned a landslide by the National League for Democracy and put the party's leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for six years. Khin Nyunt was vague, however, on such crucial details as when the elections would be held...
...when the criticism comes from near neighbors, even juntas may have to take notice. Early last week, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad raised the extraordinary prospect of expelling Burma from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) if the Nobel peace laureate isn't freed. The frustrated Prime Minister says the junta's continued intransigence "has affected our [ASEAN's] credibility." Mahathir's comments were echoed by Philippine Foreign Minister Blas Ople on the sidelines of a meeting last week of Asian and European foreign ministers in Bali...
Copyrighted. The name of Mother Teresa, the nun and Nobel laureate who died in 1997 after a life of caring for the poor and the sick; by the order of nuns she founded, the Missionaries of Charity; in Calcutta. The nuns said they sought the rights to Mother Teresa's name, the name of their order and its rosary-encircled globe logo to prevent them from being exploited by commercial interests...
...weighted down by a heavy key, ignoring Franklin's long history of kite flying, and of his delay in publicizing the experiment, though only three months elapsed. More to the point, scientific fraud seems wildly out of character for Franklin. As Harvard chemist and Franklin buff Dudley Herschbach, a Nobel laureate, notes, "It would have been utterly inconsistent with all of his other work in [science] for him to claim he'd done something...