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...most recent offering, Del Amor y Otros Demonios, Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez reconstructs life in the colonialera Americas with his usual flourishes of magic realism. I've always thought that the way in which the Americas assumed its current form, or came to be--through a process shaped by desire and fear--is the most exciting, magical story of all. I feel very much like an explorer of old. So although my adventures in the United States are rapidly coming to an end, my--or rather, our--American adventure is just beginning...
Harvard professors and officials were set on edge yesterday by news that the elusive Unabomber, a serial bomber who has denounced technology and progress, had sent two letters to area Nobel Prize winners...
...bomber reportedly sent letters to two geneticists who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993 for their separate research projects on the structure of DNA: Phillip A. Sharp, a member of the Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; and Richard J. Roberts, research director of the New England Biolabs...
Baird Professor of Science Dudley R.Herschbach, a 1986 Nobel laureate in Chemistry,said yesterday he was alarmed by the messages tothe two geneticists, both of whom he knowspersonally...
...hard day's acting, some Hollywood screen sirens like to unwind with a good book of Latin American poetry. At least Sharon Stone does. The actress is such a big fan of Octavio Paz's work, she offered to fly the Mexican poet -- in Atlanta for a gathering of Nobel Prize laureates -- to Savannah, Georgia, near where she's filming Last Dance with Rob Morrow, for lunch and a discussion of verse. After the poet's wife explained to him who Stone was, Paz told the Washington Post he was "amazed and delighted" that she knew him, but couldn...