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...only hope that when people see thequilt the message will sink in to protectthemselves," said Herschbach, a Nobel laureate inchemistry...
...those huge companies are still dripping with red ink. So far, the government has been unwilling to enforce a five-year-old bankruptcy law that would require the firms to cut featherbedded staffs and losses. Privatization remains the government's great and enduring taboo. Says Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prizewinning conservative economist, who completed a trip through China last month: "The answer to the question of how to go about getting a free- market system is very straightforward. You get the government out of the way and privatize, privatize, privatize. The Chinese have the words, but do they know...
...relatively small containers. But it does so with a difference. These 12 stories take place far from the vivid South American settings of his other tales and novels, including One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1988). In a prologue the 1982 Nobel laureate notes the theme that links these stories together: "the strange things that happen to Latin Americans in Europe...
This syndrome, called "multiple chemical sensitivity," explains some of the respiratory symptoms doctors have documented. But it cannot account for all the ailments. As a result, Aspin announced the creation of a board of inquiry headed by Joshua Lederberg of Rockefeller University, a Nobel- prizewinning expert on rare and emerging diseases. But it is up to the Pentagon to bridge the credibility gap that seems to have sprouted over the strange new syndrome...
...years ago, Dr. Robert Gallo was one of science's supernovas. When the National Cancer Institute researcher unveiled proof that a virus caused AIDS, he had every reason to look forward to fame, tidy royalties from the sale of blood-test kits and, down the road, maybe even a Nobel Prize. Instead he soon faced doubt, criticism and accusations of fraud. In 1985, just a year after his historic announcement, a dispute erupted over who really identified the AIDS virus -- Gallo or Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The two agreed in 1987 to share credit...