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...This trend is likely to persist, in part because it isn't just wealth that's moving from West to East. Each time manufacturing and services are outsourced to Asia, knowledge, technology and skills are also transferred. Professor Richard Smalley, a Nobel-Prizewinning chemist at Rice University, estimated that by 2010, 90% of all Ph.Ds in physical science and engineering may be living in Asia. With economic prowess comes geopolitical power. For many countries, exports to China have replaced exports to the U.S. as engines of growth?one reason why a longtime U.S. ally like South Korea is cozying...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
This is not where Al Franken's career looked like it was headed in the '90s, when his Stuart Smalley character was poking fun at support-group therapists on Saturday Night Live. Instead, Franken, 53, has become one of the most involved political comedians in history. Back when Kerry looked as if he was going to lose the nomination to Howard Dean, Franken not only organized a buffet lunch in his Manhattan apartment for the Senator to meet New York's media élite but also grappled with a heckling Dean supporter at a Kerry rally in New Hampshire...
...PEOPLE EVER ASK YOU, WHY THE HELL SHOULD I CARE WHAT STUART SMALLEY THINKS ABOUT POLITICS...
...ordained Presbyterian minister, he didn't smoke, drink or eat meat, prayed every day and went to bed by 9:30 each night. To cynics and parodists, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a namby-pamby zone of pint-size feel-goodism, and Mister Rogers himself a wimpy Stuart Smalley for tots...