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Kaku prizes the level of instruction he received. "I'll never regret the fact that I had a Nobel Prize winner teaching me physics as a freshman. You can't get that anywhere else," he says...
...beyond the institutional questions, there is an even larger problem at Dunster House: Karel Liem. His handling of the Nobel Ignatiev case last spring was despicable, too. When Ignatiev, a non-resident tutor, spoke out about, of all things, a kosher toaster, he was, as Liem would say, "non-rehired"--the tutorial equivalent of a firing...
Tears filled the eyes of the men and women who stood in the wintry spring wind at last week's dedication of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, remembering the mass murder of a half-century ago. Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the German death camps, turned from the audience to address Bill Clinton, who was sitting behind him. "Mr. President," he said, "I have been in the former Yugoslavia last fall. I cannot sleep since what I have seen. We must do something to stop the bloodshed." Wiesel almost pleaded: "Something, anything, must be done...
...voguish Japanese peers Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando (whose buildings are, respectively, Tokyo-by-way-of- Holl ywood lollapaloozas and ascetic Zen bunkers), but now that inequity seems moot: this week Maki was to be named the winner of the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's de facto Nobel...
...This is something that happens," said Gilbert, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1980 for his work on a novel DNA sequencing technique. "It shuts off my research activities in the Human Genome Project...