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...meeting is shaping up to be an extraordinary event featuring as distinguished a gathering of scientific luminaries as I've ever seen. Among the speakers: Jim Watson and Hamilton Smith, both Nobel prizewinners for their work on DNA; Pulitzer prizewinning entomologist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson; genome mappers Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter; John Gearhart, who isolated the fetal embryonic stem cell; Dean Hamer, the leading expert on behavior genes; plant geneticist Ingo Potrykus; neuroscientists Dr. Wise Young and Rudolph Tanzi; inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil...
...This is not just one magazine's judgment. China's Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan calls Kim "quick-witted." Outgoing South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 2000 summit with Kim Jong Il, praises him as a "man of insight." And the Dear Leader impressed former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "very decisive and practical and serious...
...this flowering been perceived by those left behind in China? Perhaps it hasn't even been noticed. Four years after U.S.-based Ha Jin won a National Book Award and three years after France-based Gao Xingjian was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature, the work of these two internationally hailed Chinese authors is still largely unseen inside China. Sadly, the China-born authors now emerging on the world's literary stage remain largely unknown inside their native country. Some are still banned...
...Nobel laureate Gao pre-sented Liu Zaifu, who left China in 1989 and was one of Gao's early advocates, with one of the three gold medals he received from the Swedish academy. Liu, a literary critic residing in the U.S. state of Colorado and a former director of the literature department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, explains why exile in the West has played such a key role in the life of émigré writers: "After fleeing from China, life was hard. We had to adjust to a new culture at a late age. Gao didn...
India's ruling party, the BJP, reveres Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and his writings on India's growing self-confidence, in part because the esteemed author appears to sanction the party's Hindu-nationalistic agenda. So it must have stung last week when Naipaul expressed "profound disappointment" with the government's crackdown on news website Tehelka. The muckraking site made a splash nearly two years ago with a sting operation that exposed Defense Ministry officials accepting bribes. After promising to investigate the matter, a government commission has done little since but investigate Tehelka and freeze the assets of its financier...