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Indiana University Professor Elinor Ostrom and University of California at Berkeley Professor Oliver E. Williamson will be the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the prize committee announced yesterday—to the surprise of some members of the Harvard Economics Department...
...Ostrom, the first female recipient of a prize in this category, was recognized for her work concerning economic governance...
DIED. JOHN OSTROM, 77, Yale paleontologist who popularized the theory that dinosaurs are linked with modern birds; of pneumonia; in Litchfield, Conn. With the 1964 discovery of a two-legged creature with razor-sharp claws he called Deinonychus, or "terrible claw," and subsequent work cementing his theory, he began a campaign, largely successful, to convince scientists that at least some of the prehistoric beings were not, as long assumed, slow, dim-witted reptiles but speedy, warm-blooded, carnivorous predators that had much in common with today's flightless birds...
...idea has spread by word of mouth and news coverage. In the Seattle area, sisters Donna Calf Robe and Debora Graham have opened The Delicious Dish, a meal-assembly business that includes a wine shop. In Fargo, N.D., Deb Evenson, Nancy Kasper and Jean Ostrom-Blonigen dreamed up What's For Dinner while sitting at their sons' sports activities (they have seven sons among them). And there's the grandmother of the idea, Dream Dinners, a company based in Snohomish, Wash., that was launched in 2002 as a monthly gathering of the friends of former caterer Stephanie Firchau...
...injustices of the world and was crushed in the process. That is happening all over the world today, and not only to Christians. People of every religion who see wrongs and try to right them lose their lives. That is what the Christian spirit is all about. LOUIS OSTROM Madison...