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...WALESA, 59, founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland and that nation's President from 1990 to '95, is turning his nonpolitical hobby into a second career. Starting next month, Walesa will be host of a regular fishing show on Polish public television. But the devoted angler and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is doing the show gratis, hasn't promised to stay away from his former career when he's on-air. "I will be a tough critic. I will praise and I will criticize. But the atmosphere of the show will be relaxed...
...Nobel laureates Richard J. Roberts, William N. Lipscomb, who is Lawrence professor of chemistry, emeritus, and Dudley R. Herschbach, who is Baird professor science, presided over the ceremony...
Last night’s ceremony was the first Ig Nobel event of three to be held this weekend...
...Nobel Laureate and Emerson Poet-in-Residence Seamus Heaney offered insights on how poetry is composed last night to a standing-room-only Jefferson Hall audience of students, faculty and the public...
...issue that Lula, a self-taught blue collar worker and trade unionist before becoming the beacon of the Brazilian Left, understands better than any of the other candidates - and certainly better than most international investors. "If international economists were always right, all we would need is to hire 10 Nobel Prize (winners) and let them run the country," he said in a recent interview. Lula has also pointedly declared his intention to reject IMF demands on inflation targets if he believes those hamper the growth of Brazil's economy...