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This time, the Nobel Committee played it safe - and with good reason. Last year they got burned (remember Northern Ireland?) and 1999 wasn't exactly a blessed year for the world's peacemakers. The Nobel Peace Prize went Friday to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the universally acclaimed humanitarian aid organization that is often first into the world's hot spots. It was an uncontroversial choice, avoiding both the ruffling of feathers and the risk of disappointment. China had lobbied intensely against the award going to exiled dissidents Wang Dan and Wei Jingshen, but it is hard to accuse...
...centerpiece, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has been an underwhelming success, and he's been more of a warrior than a peacemaker over the past year, while Pope John Paul II and President Carter haven't been particularly visible recently in mediating conflicts. In light of the competition, the Nobel Committee made an inspired choice...
...that the United States needs testing, that our weapon stockpile will deteriorate over time without testing, and could become ineffective or unsafe. Many experts, however, believe that computer simulations and tests of conventional explosives will keep the stockpile reliable. Indeed, a recent letter to the Senate signed by 32 Nobel laureates in Physics (including Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow) stated that "fully informed technical studies" had confirmed that nuclear tests are unnecessary to maintain the current arsenal. The environmental consequences of exploding a nuclear weapon and releasing radiation provide additional incentives for the U.S. to refrain from breaking...
...Number of extra copies of Jose Saramago's novel Blindness printed after he won the Nobel for Literature last year, up from...
AWARDED. To GUNTER GRASS, 71, provocative German writer whose explorations of his country's torturous century established him as one of the most esteemed voices of the postwar era; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The jury predicted that Grass's The Tin Drum (1959) would become "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century...