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...remain the exception. It is a society where, despite all the constraints endemic to poor, conservative cultures, women pilot 747s, run major corporations and become lawyers, judges and politicians. It is an overwhelmingly Muslim land (98 percent) where minorities still become cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and Nobel Prize winners. All this does not take away from the vast discrimination and injustice that exists, but the picture is far more complex than CNN reports would have you believe. The important reality is that for every militant or militant sympathizer, there are 20 Pakistanis who welcome foreigners, who embrace Americans...
...Cook dismisses this idea of isolating Ivy League donors as silly, citing the Nobel Laureate sperm bank as a poorly conceived idea. “I don’t think there’s ever been a situation where the offspring of a Nobel Laureate has won a Nobel Prize,” he says. “People don’t quite understand genetics,” he says with slight frustration...
...Even Nobel Prize-winning scientists fail to become superstars or media darlings, nor does the Nobel improve their chances of getting a choice table in a New York City restaurant. But a scientist who can make a discovery with the potential to directly save millions of lives and alter the path of a disease ravaging the globe will not just be remembered—he will also be a hero...
...reader amid a sea of technicalities and descriptions of virus strains until the drama of 1985. At this point, Gallo claimed to have discovered the virus that causes AIDS, dubbed HLTV-3B. With this virus, Gallo created the first blood antibody test and garnered all the accolades minus the Nobel Prize, including a nomination to the National Academy of Science...
...DIED. GEORGE NADER, 80, 1954 Golden Globe winner and star of 1953 cult-classic Robot Monster; in Los Angeles. Nader's soon-to-be-published book, The Perils of Paul, gives an inside look into Hollywood's gay community. DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, scientist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping out the molecular structure of human hemoglobin with colleague John Kendrew; in Cambridge, England. Perutz's work laid the foundation for human genome and disease research. DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows his own experiences growing up among...