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...book addresses the loss of biodiversity in terms of potential medical research and treatment. “We have no [environmental] Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” he said, comparing the negative impact of changes in the global environment to that of nuclear weapons. Chivian, who won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in co-founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that more than 50 percent of prescribed medicines come from natural sources or are patterned after natural sources. He said that compounds found in cone snails protect brain cells from death when deprived...
Even the famous are working feverishly to cash in. Paul Krugman, who just won the Nobel Prize for Economics, is having one of his backlist titles brushed off and reissued with revisions. Publisher W.W. Norton & Co. is lengthening the title of 1999 book The Return of Depression Economics with an appendage: ... and the Crisis of 2008. Krugman has agreed to write three new chapters, revise two and eliminate two. He started writing two weeks ago in order to make the release date...
...Nobel Committee Chairman fielded questions in a town-hall setting on subjects ranging from his own experience at Harvard to the inner workings of the Nobel committee...
...sort of surprised by the extent to which the questions focused on the Nobel Prize but not on Dr. Wästberg’s humanitarian work,” said audience member Spencer B.L. Lenfield ’12. Wästberg is also known for his anti-Apartheid work in South Africa and for founding the Swedish arm of Amnesty International...
...What I came away from the event with was a much stronger snapshot of how someone in the Nobel committee evaluates the state of literature in the world at this moment,” Lenfield said...