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...Union emphases on education, health care and Social Security reform. Try though he might to craft an unimpeachable legacy in the upcoming months, Clinton is only fooling himself yet again. He has too little time to leave any great achievements, and assuming he doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize (he was nominated for it this week), he had might as well accept his fate and put all his might into getting Al Gore '69 into the White House and Hillary into the Senate...
This resulted in a flood of initial publicity, capped by a New York Times cover story in which Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA James D. Watson was quoted as saying that Folkman would have the cure for cancer in two years...
Although the U.S. economy has been nothing but sunshine, it has been a terrifying year in world markets: famed financier George Soros lost $2 billion in Russia last summer; a hedge fund blessed with two Nobel prizewinners blew up in an afternoon, nearly taking Wall Street with it; and Brazil's currency, the real, sambaed and swayed and then swooned. In the past 18 months 40% of the world's economies have been tugged from robust growth into recession or depression...
...People are discouraged from going into teaching because of the money. We live in a capitalist society...Even the Nobel Prize gives you money," he said...
...most ambitious new CDs is the Roots' Things Fall Apart (named after the book by the Nigerian Nobel laureate Chinua Achebe). The CD features live instrumentation, lyrics suitable for a poetry slam and a cameo from Erykah Badu. Roots drummer Ahmir hopes, in the future, the more creative wing of performers in hip-hop will form a support network. "There are some people in hip-hop that care about leaving a mark," he says. "There are some of us that look at Innervisions as a benchmark, or Blood on the Tracks or Blue or Purple Rain. Leaving a mark...