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Local activists reacted favorably to last Friday's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to two individuals involved in the struggle of East Timor against its Indonesian occupiers...
AWARDED. To WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 73, masterly Polish poet of the prosaic; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The Academy described her as the "Mozart of poetry." Her flowing verses and everyday imagery reveal the grace and depth of simplicity...
...YORK: After winning the Nobel prize in economics, laureate William Vickrey said he was ready to use the Nobel for a "good bully pulpit," and had a few more books to write. Instead, the 82-year old economist died Thursday night. He was found by a passing motorist unconscious at the wheel of his car about 30 miles north of New York City by a passing motorist, and pronounced DOA at a hospital early today. His 60 year career focused on "asymmetric information," when the parties in a transaction have access to different information. Interested in practical applications, like...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Three American physicists will share the 1996 Nobel Prize in their field for work on the physical properties of supercooled helium. David Lee and Robert Richardson of Cornell University and Douglas Osheroff of Stanford discovered in the early 1970s that at very low temperatures, helium-3 demonstrates characteristics of superfluidity Scot Woods
STOCKHOLM: The third of six Nobel prizes was presented Tuesday to Briton James Mirrlees and American William Vickrey for their work in economic theory. The two men did ground-breaking writing on"asymetric information," a condition which occurs when buyer and seller have differing information about a transaction. The condition has broad implications in analyzing systems from insurance and credit markets to taxation schemes. Mirrlees used the theory to study how high to set income taxes without discouraging workers and investors or encouraging tax evasion. Karl Gustaf Loefgren, a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, called...