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Joseph Rotblat, the Polish-born physicist who quit the Manhattan Project in protest and founded a worldwide anti-nuclear movement, was awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace prize Friday morning. "I see this honor not for me personally but rather for the small group of scientists who have been working for 40 years to try to save the world, often against the world's wish," the 87-year old British activist told reporters in London. The Nobel committee also cited the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the disarmament group Rotblat helped found in 1955 as part of an effort...
Americans Edward Lewis and Eric Wieschaus will share the $1 million Nobel Prize in Medicine with German Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard. The three were recognized for work on genetic studies that could help explain birth defects and miscarriages. All three used that classroom staple, the fruit fly, as the basis of their experiments. "They found the genetic master control system for taking a fertilized egg and turning it into a fruit fly embryo," says medical writer Christine Gorman. Because the system exists in other species, she adds, "it explains a lot about the development of human embryos as well...
Harvard's already impressive list of 34 Nobel Laureates grew by one more yesterday with the awarding of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory...
Heaney is the first Harvard Professor ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Harvard faculty member to receive the prize since...
Instead of a Nobel laureate, Allen finds Linda, a dumb, beautiful, young, sexy porn star/prostitute (surprise, surprise), whom he quickly befriends. As he spends more and more time with Linda (played by Mira Sorvino, who should be winner of this year's Most Annoying Voice Award), his wife begins to cheat on him, and eventually he turns to Linda for consolation...