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...crests the Tibetan wave, building roughly since the Dalai Lama's 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Richard Gere pioneered the full religiopolitical embrace years ago, but he may have found a successor in Adam Yauch, 33, singer for the punk-rap group the Beastie Boys. Not only has Yauch guided his famously irreverent band into songs like Bodhisattva Oath; he is also primary architect of two Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits that became instant touchstones for a Gen X phenomenon quickly dubbed Tibet Chic. Like the new movies, the concerts' first concern was political but they too opened with that signature chanting...
...anyone ever does discover a cure for the common cold, he or she will be a shoo-in for a Nobel Prize. Not only are colds enormously costly--$10 billion annually in lost wages and productivity in the U.S. alone--but they're almost impossible to prevent. Colds are caused by hundreds of different viruses from several major viral families, virtually ruling out the possibility of a single, one-shot-stops-all vaccine. Treatment is further complicated because the disease is a moving target. Rhinoviruses, which account for about 40% of all colds, attack mainly in the fall and spring...
...Other Ig Nobel recipients included Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida who studied insect splats on car windows; the late Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany who was honored for his work on "Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Tornado Wind Speed"; and a team of scientists led by Carl J. Charnetski who showed that listening to elevator music may help prevent the common cold...
OSLO: It's what Diana would have wanted. The International Campaign to Ban Land Mines won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday ? and if measured by the growth of their movement alone, the award is well-deserved. The ICBL began five years ago as a loose alliance of less than five anti-land-mine groups. Today it comprises over a thousand. And despite the boost given by Diana's support and her tragic death, credit belonged Friday to another woman: American coordinator Jody Williams...
Fulfilling what would have been Diana's wish, the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (TIME Daily...