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...Milky Way is now, glowing white hot like a blast furnace or the surface of a star. Because this cosmic glow had no place to go, it must still be there, albeit so attenuated that it took the form of feeble microwaves. Penzias and Wilson later won the Nobel Prize for the accidental discovery of this radio hiss from the dawn of time...
...decade later, though, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding after all. Einstein immediately and with great relief discarded the cosmological constant, declaring it to be the biggest blunder of his life. (If he had stuck to his guns, he might have nabbed another Nobel...
...energy proposals, the results have been mixed. The spy-plane incident with China ended well, but in its early stages Bush was unsteady. Breaking off nonproliferation talks with North Korea, he contradicted his own Secretary of State and seemed dismissive of South Korea President Kim Dae Jung's Nobel Peace-prizewinning efforts at reconciliation with the North. Most of all, he infuriated allies across Europe by abruptly announcing that the U.S. would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Bush had promised a "humble foreign policy," but as far as Europe was concerned, he delivered the opposite...
...third economist in three years to speak at Harvard’s Commencement ceremonies, has been called the “steward of America’s economy” by former White House Chief of Staff John D. Podesta. Rubin follows Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Nobel prize-winning scholar of the developing world’s economics, professor emeritus Amartya...
...Fineberg ’67, Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark ’74 were oft-mentioned. Beyond the gates, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza “Condi” Rice, the Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus, and a little-known—at least in the academic world—Treasury Secretary named Lawrence H. Summers were considered viable options...