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Carlo Rubbia was in a Milan cab, en route to Linate Airport last week and worrying about a possible Italian air-traffic controllers' strike. Suddenly the pop music on the taxi's radio was interrupted by a news bulletin: Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, his colleague at CERN, the great European nuclear research complex, had been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. At first the taxi driver did not believe his passenger's excited claims to be the man in the news. "But when I convinced him," Rubbia recalls, "he offered me a free ride...
Routinely travelling in a taxi cab in Italy to catch an afternoon airplane flight to his home in Geneva yesterday, Rubbia, much to his surprise, heard over the car radio that he had won the the prestigeous award...
...driver, unaware that newest Nobel laureate was riding in his taxi, turned to Rubbia and remarked how interesting it was that an Italian had won the prize...
Called Taxigrams, the traveling commercials are the creation of Donald Chipman, a former owner of two taxi fleets...
...Africa; and I wanted to be in an African country which, in the mess of black Africa, was generally held to be a political and economic success." The Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro displays his idiosyncratic methods of assessing a strange place: serendipitous encounters with local people, from college professors to taxi drivers; intuitive pursuits of whatever his Western intellect perceives as bizarre. Naipaul is most unsettled by a visit to Yamoussoukro, a stupefying modern city being constructed in the remote jungle around the tribal village of the country's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. An artificial lake...