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...vagaries before: with no formal schooling or gourmet pedigree, Loiseau had bought and run four celebrated restaurants. He received France's Legion of Honor in 1995 and three years later become the first chef to take his company public. Then again, the rankings are to France what the Nobel Peace Prize is to Norway. "More than presidents (whom [the French] laugh at) ... and more than religious leaders (now employed as vague accompanists to the rituals of getting born, marrying and dying), France trusts the Michelin to discover The Truth," wrote Rudolph Chelminski, who has documented Loiseau's ascent...
Although never a Nobel Laureate—which some say is a result of Borges’ politics—the writer shared the first Prix Formentor with Irish poet Samuel Beckett in 1961. The award, given to writers judged to have made a lasting contribution to world literature, led to a shower of invitations that ultimately brought Borges to the United States and Harvard, where he delivered the Norton Lectures (recently published in a collection, This Craft of Verse...
...addictive, cancer-causing nature of its lucrative product. (I kid you not.) This is a flagrant example of a non-viable thesis project. Other examples include: trying to split the atom with light rays, writing the next Great American novel and constructing a new theoretical framework for democracy. No Nobel Prize winner has ever been twenty-two, and there is a reason for that...
...TIME president Eileen Naughton aptly predicted, these emotional topics produced fireworks. At one point, the Nobel laureate James Watson, whose discovery 50 years ago with Francis Crick of DNA?s double helix was the inspiration for the three-day talkfest, showed that even at age 74, he could be as feisty as ever. When ethicist Daniel Callahan insisted that bioscientists didn?t absolutely need embryonic stem cells in their quest to cure certain intractable ailments, Watson roared from his seat: ?That?s crap.? Stunned into momentary silence, Callahan eventually replied that maybe scientists could use them under certain circumstances...
...wide assortment of artists, writers and scholars, among them Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell and, of course, Steinbeck, who admittedly absorbed Doc?s ideas like a sponge and turned him into the model for half a dozen characters in his books. (Ricketts "was part of my brain," the Nobel-prizewinning writer later said.) In the hazy predawn hours, over mugs of his home brew, Ricketts spouted poetry (Walt Whitman was a favorite), discussed modern art with ease and engaged in a game he called speculative metaphysics. Boozy bull sessions? Perhaps, but Ricketts also waxed eloquently about the power of cause...