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During 79 sessions taped between 1993 and 2001, President Bill Clinton and Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Taylor Branch recorded a secret and "unique, verbatim record" of Clinton's presidency, meant to serve posterity. At the end of each conversation, Branch would hand over his cassettes to Clinton--and then record his observations and recollections after leaving the White House. This book is the fruit of that second set of tapes, and it's by turns intimate and dispassionately historical. With its chronological account of Clinton's then contemporaneous comments on the Middle East peace process, his Republican opponents and just...
This year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners gathered for an evening of funny and thought-provoking speeches at MIT on Saturday afternoon for the Ig Nobel Prize lectures...
...informal lectures followed Thursday’s 19th annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, but added a new twist to the quirky distinction.Joined on stage by a young child identified only as “Miss Sweetie Poo,” the speakers were routinely interrupted approximately five minutes into their speeches by the girls’s cries of “Please stop, I’m bored...
Elena N. Bodnar, one of the winners of the Public Health prize, gave a talk entitled “Convertible Bra Mask—Life Saving Lingerie” where she described her invention of a brassiere that can be converted into two gas masks in an emergency. According to Bodnar, technology can be manufactured without affecting the product’s original function...
...first Latin country to get there, and the IOC's selection is as much an endorsement of that achievement as it is of Rio's $14 billion bid to hold the games. The Nobel literature committee awarded Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez its prize in 1982 in part to affirm the global influence of Latin America's magical realist tradition. Now, giving Rio the Olympics sends a strong signal to the rest of the developing world that the Brazilian model - the post-ideological mix of orthodox market economics and progressive social policy championed by Lula...