Reuters China expressed fury on Tuesday that the United States is to honor the Dalai Lama with an award and warned that the activities of his supporters were increasing in Chinese-controlled Tibet.The Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since staging a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, is to receive the [...]
3 Americans Win Nobel Economics Prize Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson won the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for developing a theory that helps explain situations in which markets work and others in which they don’t.The three researchers “laid the foundations of mechanism design theory,” which plays a central [...]
She has a long article in Foreign Affairs . Some of it I agree with, and some of it I don’t, but certainly worth reading. One small line though absolutely horrified me, from the seventh page in a section discussing the economic ‘opportunities’ presented by combating global warming (she might want to familiarize herself with [...]
‘WIRE’ LAW FAILED LOST GI U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned. (via Instapundit) First off, let me say that there is no real reason to believe that [...]
USATODAY.com A salute from the people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize is a heady achievement, but what makes Brewer’s story truly remarkable is that she appears to have fabricated significant portions of her tale, starting with whether she was ever an Enron “executive” and extending to her claims of being a “whistle-blower.”Instead, a [...]
CNN.com Turkish President Abdullah Gul has warned the U.S. that a congressional bill recognizing the mass killings of Armenians during World War One as genocide could cause “serious problems” for relations between the two countries. The resolution was passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee by a 27-21 vote — the first step towards a [...]
washingtonpost.com German scientist Gerhard Ertl got the birthday present of his dreams yesterday: the Nobel Prize in chemistry.Ertl, who turned 71 yesterday, won the prestigious $1.5 million award for showing in unprecedented detail how molecules of gas behave when they land on solid surfaces — an esoteric specialty that has generated such practical benefits as [...]
Los Angeles Times The 2007 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to two European scientists who discovered a tiny magnetic effect that has revolutionized the storage of computerized information.France’s Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg of Germany independently discovered giant magnetoresistance, known as GMR, in 1988. The manipulation of weakly magnetized films of atoms allows [...]
New York Times Two Americans and a Briton were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine today for developing the immensely powerful “knockout” technology that allows scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice. The winners, who will share the $1.54 million prize, are Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah [...]
The Guardian The Guardian can reveal that a team of 20 top scientists assembled by Mr Venter, led by the Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, has already constructed a synthetic chromosome, a feat of virtuoso bio-engineering never previously achieved. Using lab-made chemicals, they have painstakingly stitched together a chromosome that is 381 genes long and contains [...]
