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DIED. SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR, 84, Nobel laureate in physics whose work led to the theory of black holes; in Chicago. Chandrasekhar, who studied the death throes of stars as their fuel is exhausted, calculated the Chandrasekhar limit (1.4 times the sun's mass), beyond which collapsing stars continue to compress indefinitely...
...international community has approached Nigeria in a pleading tone," says Nobel-prizewinning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, now in exile in the U.S. "What's needed is threats." Those could involve seizing the loot Abacha & Co. are believed to have stashed in the U.S. and Europe, or even boycotting Nigerian oil. But such punitive measures will not work without moral pressure from those who have allowed the dictators' behavior to pass unchallenged. Above all, Nigerians crave the respect of the rest of the world. Freeing Obasanjo and the other political prisoners would be a tiny first step in showing they deserve...
Freedom, as Flannery O'Connor wrote, cannot be conceived simply. Few could understand this better than Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's chief dissident and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Placed under house arrest by a military junta in 1989, Suu Kyi spent six years confined to her family's deteriorating lakeside bungalow in Rangoon. At any time, she was free to join her husband and two children in London -- knowing that the generals would never allow her back. That was a definition of freedom she refused to accept. When the junta abruptly announced last week that...
...Phase 4, the defense would attack the prosecution's dna evidence. But since one of the prosecution's own expert dna witnesses admitted to errors on the stand, Simpson's lawyers may choose to limit testimony here. Also, Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, the team's star witness on flaws in the dna-testing procedures -- which he partially invented -- is a loose cannon who might say anything...
...first extended interview with a Western journalist since theBurmese military regime freed her from six years of house arrest this week, Nobel laureateAung San Suu KyitoldTIME Hong Kong bureau chief Sandra Burtonshe believes the junta has started down the path to democracy. "I believe that all thinking people must be ready to change with the times," Suu Kyi told Burton in the unfurnished front room of her lakeside home. "I hope that in the last six years they realize that what we want is change for the good of the nation, and that by cooperating they too may be able...