Word: nobels
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...Nobel Prize for literature merely confirmed what her readers and admirers had known for more than two decades: Toni Morrison is a major American writer. But because she is an African-American woman, her importance to and impact on her times transcend the literary. Her example, both in her powerful novels and in her strong, imposing personality, has inspired a generation of black artists and produced seismic effects on publishing...
Because Morrison is a writer, her influence will outlive her. As she said in her Nobel acceptance speech in Stockholm: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives...
...well be refined to the point where it can be tested in real-world experiments. Already his work on a related idea known as topological quantum field theory, which allows physicists to find connections between seemingly unrelated equations, has earned Witten the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. That's no small feat, considering that mathematicians usually look down on the dabblings of mere physicists...
What would women pay to be impregnated, by remote control or even after the donor's death, by the world's smartest physicist or most talented violinist or most accomplished adventurer? That isn't so preposterous as it may sound. A few years back, William Shockley, Nobel-prizewinning co-inventor of the transistor, attracted ridicule by making a deposit in a sperm bank that accepted donations only from men with high IQs. But with biological immortality as a lure, more of the world's most accomplished men--or, failing that, a bunch of rock stars and politicians--might be only...
YASSER ARAFAT Forget handshakes at White House. "Peace of the brave" meets post-Nobel realpolitik...