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...Taylor is a physics professor and Nobel Prize-winner...
...hypersensitive reaction of the ANC was recently mirrored by one of the stalwarts of traditional South African liberalism, Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for literature. The education department of Gauteng province (where Johannesburg is located) recently announced that Gordimer's 1990 novel, "July's People," was "not acceptable" for use in the prescribed list of books to be read by high school seniors. The committee described the book as "deeply racist, superior and patronizing...
...national figure and certainly a worthy candidate to deliver a graduation speech. Yet we are concerned that, through no fault of his own, Rubin’s speech may be regarded by many seniors as simply more of the same. When giving his address this June, Rubin will follow Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, two speakers whose major interests have similarly been economic...
...might have been a bit too hasty. Last week scientists made a powerful case that Einstein's blunder may actually have been another Nobel-worthy prediction. Using the Hubble Space Telescope to find and study a distant supernova--an exploding star-- astronomers from two rival research teams have jointly gathered the strongest evidence yet that the expansion of the universe is actually speeding up, like a rocket with its throttle wide open. And that means something is pushing...
DIED. CLIFFORD SHULL, 85, M.I.T. professor whose citation for the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics said "he helped answer the question of where atoms are"; in Medford, Mass. He developed a technique to study the atomic structure of materials by bouncing streams of neutrons off them...