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...received the Nobel Prize in 1989 for demonstrating that cancer genes can arise from normal cells...
...everyone agrees. There is still a basic free-market argument that business has no business in anything but making money--which of itself will provide plenty of social benefits. One who has made that point for decades is the Nobel prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. Says he: "It was a very fashionable topic some 20 years ago, and then it sort of died down; all of a sudden it has become very fashionable again. I think it is all rhetoric...
...which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told a town-hall gathering in April--as his idol, Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. And as a devout libertarian conservative, the House majority leader steers by strong convictions--against farm subsidies, in favor of opening U.S. borders to more immigrants--even when those convictions put him at odds with some of his party's powerful interest groups...
...significant at the level at which the minimum wage is being raised," contends Joseph Stiglitz, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, who argued against the minimum wage in a textbook he wrote in 1993. Last October about 100 other economists who share his view, including three Nobel laureates, announced their support for President Clinton's plan to raise the wage 90'--from $4.25 to $5.15--over 15 months...
...SHOW WHAT COMPUTERS CANNOT DO, match one with a poet. If the machine has any intelligence, it will say nolo contendere. The computer should compete with Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate poet, not with a chess master like Kasparov. This doesn't mean that Heaney has a "soul" and the machine does not. It means that nature's thinkers--humans, with their art, humor and compassion--can be mimicked by science but never matched. Not now. Not ever. DANIEL C. MAGUIRE Milwaukee, Wisconsin...