Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story and learned to love markets." Her attempts to find a vocational niche in Moscow and her participation on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties organization, require less of the conversational tone used in discussing her childhood dinners with Nobel Laureates. However, the same informal atmosphere lingers throughout her writing, even as she moves forward to discuss more global issues of content control and privacy on the Internet...
...family of Nobel Laureate Dudley R. Herschbach occasionally admonishes him with "B.J.," but it's not a nickname...
Herschbach is also a frequent participant in the Ig Nobels, and he once auctioned off a cast of his foot during the annual parody of the Nobel Prize awards...
...life has become even more crowded since winning the Nobel in 1986, and his office, which he cheerfully admits needs a cleaning, attests to that fact...
...particular, I feel very strongly about preaching the importance of education," Herschbach says. "Nobody asked me to do any preaching on that subject before the Nobel Prize...