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...simpler combinations of technologies could be used to create highly efficient urban-transportation systems. Buses, subways and private cars would be superfluous under a plan proffered by Nobel laureate Arno Penzias at Bell Laboratories. In his vision, a fleet of passenger vans, each equipped with a global-positioning system and cellular phone (plus whatever amenities its operator chose to offer) -- all linked by computer to a central dispatching program, would provide total customized coverage of every street and every neighborhood in town, 24 hours...
...Citizen is a very serious question indeed, for in this age of brainless mass culture and its sheeplike world devotees, it is the artists (or so they would like to be known) who draw larger crowds and wield greater influence with the public than Secretaries of State and Nobel laureates. Their sexual hijinks, their fashion statements, their political causes and their illegitimate children are what keep our economy trucking along...
...name to add to its honor roll of former guests, which includes Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ann Richards, Nobel Winner Rigoberta Menchu and yes, even Newt Gingrich Now they can pencil in Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, she's rain on the IOP's parade of consistent cutting-edge political relevance...
That is why it is impossible to forget. That is why it is so difficult to forgive. ``Although we know that God is merciful, please, God, have no mercy on those who have created this place,'' prayed Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during the Jewish observance. ``God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here. Remember the nocturnal processions of children and more children and more children, frightened, quiet, so quiet and so beautiful. If we could simply look at one, our hearts would break.'' Wiesel knows. He was 14 when he entered Auschwitz...
...thesis is very different from the report.The work is very tailored to academia," she says."[On the other hand,] the report is watered downand is not a Nobel Prize winning piece. It'swritten in newspaper language...