Word: nobels
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...school that can be nonchalant about a Nobel and relaxed about a Rhodes, University administrators are almost giddy about the "Innovation in Fair Housing Award," it received from the city of Cambridge earlier this year...
Simon S. Kuznets, Baker professor of economics, emeritus, wins the Nobel Prize for work done in the 1930s on national income accounting, including that of the gross national product...
...imps of literary happenstance could not have done better than News of a Kidnapping (Knopf; 291 pages; $25). It brings together the world's two best-known Colombians, symbolically locked in a struggle for their nation's soul. The first is the book's author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medellin drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths...
DIED. ALFRED HERSHEY, 88, Nobel-prizewinning scientist who proved, by testing and stirring up viruses and bacteria in a household blender, that DNA carries genetic information; in Syosset...
...term positional consequences of its decisions. The machine refused to move to a position that had a decisive short-term advantage--showing a very human sense of danger. I think this moment could mark a revolution in computer science that could earn IBM and the Deep Blue team a Nobel Prize. Even today, weeks later, no other chess-playing program in the world has been able to evaluate correctly the consequences of Deep Blue's position...