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...Racehorse owners, on the other hand, face long-shot odds. Only a fraction of horses purchased, trained and stabled win prize money consistently; many never compete at all. But that isn't stopping thousands of investors around the world from trying to grab a piece of the next Seabiscuit. If horse racing was once the sport of kings, now it at least encompasses earls, minor nobles, and maybe even a squire...
...however, has yet to take that responsible line. Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have asked UBS to tell its Chinese client to “halt its operations in Sudan or implement a rigorous corporate governance policy that would mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
That last week’s Nobel Peace Prize went to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore ’69 emphasizes that a cooperative response to global warming is a priority worldwide. The U.S. must recognize this and practice the environmentalism that it preaches. When the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change begins in Bali on Dec. 3, I hope that President Bush is there free of the specter of Byrd-Hagel—and that Congress also recognizes the need for us take a global lead, accept an emissions cap, and make sure that emissions...
...both sides, there was an undercurrent of terror beneath the indignation. Repenting and accepting Jesus as my lord and savior is on my To-Do list somewhere between “Pick up your dry cleaning” and “Win a Nobel Peace Prize.” But when I run into groups like Repent America, I start rethinking my life. “Things do not exist simply because you do or do not believe in them,” Nathan said. “If you don’t believe in trucks, that won?...
...plaque lists his achievements while at Harvard, where he won the Nobel Prize and “planned the rejuvenation of the Cold Spring Harbor Lab under which he subsequently became director...