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In fact, Haavelmo's prize reflected a situation that is unique to the award for economics. The Nobel Prizes were first given in 1901, but the economics citation was not added until 1969, when it was established by Sweden's central bank. That late start has prompted the Royal Swedish...
Many of King's other friends and associates banded together last week to ! demand that Abernathy "repudiate" his account of King's last hours. Among those signing a wire of protest were Jesse Jackson, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, and SCLC's current president, Joseph Lowery. They speculated that "to sell...
Range after rocky range, the mountains of northern Nevada soar above the arid flats. From the air their sagebrush cloaks seem as soft as crumpled velvet. Suddenly a series of gigantic holes looms below, so huge that if they were the size of anthills, the ore trucks and bulldozers scurrying...
If gold mining in Nevada were confined to the Carlin Trend, environmentalists like Glenn Miller, a biochemist at the University of Nevada- Reno, would not be so concerned. But Carlin is not the only area in Nevada where mining companies are digging up the land. Hundreds of geologists continue to...
Was it only last July that pro-life forces were cheering themselves hoarse? After years of battling in the streets, the legislatures and the courts, they had won their greatest victory: a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Inc. that gives states enhanced power...