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Surrounded by several dozen Cambridge schoolchildren, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) called for a reduction of arms sales around the world as former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias looked...
...Somehow, this is not the distinction I had in mind," I said. "I don't mean to seem ungrateful. And I don't mean that I was under any illusions that a Nobel Prize was coming my way. I suppose I was wondering whether there might be some appropriate honor in between...
...outstanding women chemists in the world," said Corey, who received the 1990 Nobel Prize in chemistry. "She was a major figure in our department...
...born and raised in Rotterdam, where his father Leendert de Kooning was a liquor distributor and his mother Cornelia Nobel--reputedly a woman of fearsome toughness--ran a sailors' bar on the waterfront. He studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts in the 1920s. It often used to be said that de Kooning got an extensive training in classical draftsmanship there. This wasn't true. What he wanted to be was a commercial artist, an illustrator--to do the kinds of illustrations he had seen in American magazines...
CHARGED. WOLE SOYINKA, 62, Nigerian exile and the 1986 Nobel laureate for literature; with treason by his country's military dictatorship; near Lagos, Nigeria. The regime claims that Soyinka and 11 other dissidents were involved in a series of bombings of army sites. Soyinka fled Nigeria in 1994 and resides in various Western countries...