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...deficiencies allowed Atlanta to ?steal? the centennial Olympiad. ?Athenians are particularly proud this time, because they feel they?ve been awarded the Games not on the basis of birthright, but on the basis of merit.? The city beat out ancient rival Rome on the final ballot, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm and Cape Town were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting...
Like beauty pageant contestants, the would-be hosts of the 2004 Summer Olympics ? who spent around $100 million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...
AWARDED. To WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 73, masterly Polish poet of the prosaic; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The Academy described her as the "Mozart of poetry." Her flowing verses and everyday imagery reveal the grace and depth of simplicity...
...STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Three American physicists will share the 1996 Nobel Prize in their field for work on the physical properties of supercooled helium. David Lee and Robert Richardson of Cornell University and Douglas Osheroff of Stanford discovered in the early 1970s that at very low temperatures, helium-3 demonstrates characteristics of superfluidity Scot Woods
...STOCKHOLM: The third of six Nobel prizes was presented Tuesday to Briton James Mirrlees and American William Vickrey for their work in economic theory. The two men did ground-breaking writing on"asymetric information," a condition which occurs when buyer and seller have differing information about a transaction. The condition has broad implications in analyzing systems from insurance and credit markets to taxation schemes. Mirrlees used the theory to study how high to set income taxes without discouraging workers and investors or encouraging tax evasion. Karl Gustaf Loefgren, a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, called...