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...living U.S. presidents and the vast majority of Nobel laureate economists join Harvard's faculty in support of the agreement. This virtual unananimity sharply contrasts the division in the American public and with-in Congress. For legislation with such brain power behind it, NAFTA is in a perilous position. Powerful interest groups and, most conspicuously, Ross Perot's United We Stand, have mounted a fierce battle that has left NAFTA's chances uncertain at best...
...performance, the U.N. has reached the end of its capacity for settling global disputes. "We are at a critical stage," says Kofi Annan, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, "because we have been asked to do too much with too little." In 1988, when U.N. peacekeepers won the Nobel Peace Prize, their numbers totaled just over 10,000. This year almost 80,000 blue helmets are deployed around a post-cold war world in which peace has only been achieved piecemeal. Troops still patrol truce lines, but now they also monitor elections, protect human rights, train local police, guard humanitarian...
...ours. There is a free-trade agreement up for approval, and almost everyone knows it's a good thing. All six living Presidents, Republican and Democrat, have come out strongly in favor of it. When was the last time that happened on anything? So, too, all 17 living American Nobel-prizewinning economists. And -- here's what's great -- even most of the members of Congress planning to vote against it are, privately, in favor...
...parents did not see Inside Edge until I took it home with me for the summer. I had warned them of its contents, telling them that it was probably not what they expected and not to get their hopes up--this was not some literary manifesto worthy of the Nobel Prize...
...drives the infertility business in the U.S. "We are one of the few countries in the world where you can sell sperm and eggs," said George Annas, a medical ethicist at Boston University. There are already catalogs that list the characteristics of sperm donors -- including one made up of Nobel prizewinners. Without regulation, it will only be a matter of time, said Annas, before some entrepreneur tries to market embryos derived from Michael Jordan or Cindy Crawford...