Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have given impetus to her quest to eradicate the legacies of the battlefield. Rather, Jody Williams spent much of her life in the serene, clapboard-church-dotted hamlet of Putney, Vt., where, last Friday, the day after her 47th birthday, she received word that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
...think it's tragic that President Clinton does not want to be on the side of humanity." And she found it odd that he had not yet called to congratulate her. "I think if the President can call the winner of the Super Bowl, he should call the Nobel Peace Prize winner." If he does call, she knows what she'll say: "What's your problem...
...need that desire to create something," said fellow panelist Walter Gilbert, co-founder and former chief executive of Biogen Inc.; professor of molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard, and a Nobel Prize winner. "It takes a lot of arrogance to create a company...
...anyone ever does discover a cure for the common cold, he or she will be a shoo-in for a Nobel Prize. Not only are colds enormously costly--$10 billion annually in lost wages and productivity in the U.S. alone--but they're almost impossible to prevent. Colds are caused by hundreds of different viruses from several major viral families, virtually ruling out the possibility of a single, one-shot-stops-all vaccine. Treatment is further complicated because the disease is a moving target. Rhinoviruses, which account for about 40% of all colds, attack mainly in the fall and spring...
Mother Teresa, the Nobel Laureate, is said to have left only two saris and a bucket as her worldly possessions, but she is more respected than modern Queens, Kings and billionaires [WORLD, Sept. 22]. Is there a lesson here for our materialist world? VINAY MAHAJAN Melbourne...