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Beauty in Boston 7 Nov 2009 03:16 GMT
... teach biomedical engineering and psychology at the school. Sheldon Lee Glascow, who won a Nobel Prize in 1979, and Elie Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, join ...
Tax the Traders! Make Wall Street Pay its Share With a "Tobin Tax" 7 Nov 2009 19:12 GMT
... of its bailout money. The idea of taxing speculative trades was first proposed by Nobel Prize winning economist James Tobin in the 1970s; but at the time, the tax raised ...
Spanish novelist dies at 103 7 Nov 2009 11:10 GMT
... 20th-century Spain�s most distinguished intellectuas, Ayala was routinely mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides being a novelist, he was a poet, critic, essayist, lawyer and ...
Everyday is special - 07 November 2009 7 Nov 2009 00:13 GMT
... the birthday of Albert Camus (1913-1960), the French writer, philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. Camus was often associated with existentialism, but used to call ...
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" 7 Nov 2009 09:09 GMT
... Mayan mathematics, became a Japanese gourmet, an expert on samba music and won the Nobel Prize for physics. Seems odd, right? In his autobiography, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventuresof ...

Controversy Unlimited - Kufuor in the Mo [opinion] 7 Nov 2009 05:34 GMT
... tenure as President are such that the prize money pales into great insignificance for how ... Obama has gone ahead to win the Nobel Prize and as controversial as it may ...
Comment: Controversy Unlimited: Kufuor in the Mo 7 Nov 2009 08:16 GMT
... tenure as President are such that the prize money pales into great insignificance for how ... Obama has gone ahead to win the Nobel Prize and as controversial as it may ...
Pope to inaugurate new Paul VI Institute in Brescia this Sunday 7 Nov 2009 00:53 GMT
... be During the same ceremony, the Holy Father will confer the International Paul VI Prize, defined by John Paul II as the �Catholic Nobel Prize.� The Paul VI Institute was created shortly after the late Pontiff�s death by ...
Ga. man accused in 1976 Mo. slaying in court 7 Nov 2009 00:53 GMT
... to Moore. Doisy was the granddaughter of Edward A. Doisy, who shared the 1943 Nobel Prize in medicine with another researcher for their discovery of vitamin K. A research building ...
LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 7/11 7 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
... in Da Nang A photo exhibition on Irish writer Samuel Beckett, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, was organised in the central city of Da Nang on ...

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Irish universities lagging behind in global rankings 7 Nov 2009 05:55 GMT
... articles published. The rankings have come in for criticism because of the use of Nobel Prize wins, which often date back many years . The list is dominated by American ...
England: their cup of tea 7 Nov 2009 06:16 GMT
... Oak Park native Ernest Hemingway. The Oscar winner has just been cast as the Nobel Prize winner in playing Papa Hemingway's third wife, Mary, and Garcia playing the writer's Cuban ...
Harmony key to global prosperity 7 Nov 2009 06:54 GMT
... of having the participation of four leading domestic and global, including Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, professor emeritus of Stanford University, member of the American National Academy ...
Frontiers of the future: In-gene-ous modifications 7 Nov 2009 08:12 GMT
... RNA. This has dramatic potential for application in modifying plant genes for beneficial purposes. Nobel Prize winner Phillip Sharp, formerly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told TOI-Crest, "Almost all ...
Frontiers of the future: Nano tech, mega profits 7 Nov 2009 08:12 GMT
... supercapacitors, grapheme, shaped nanoparticles, biologically derived nanoparticles (think of the ribosome - this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry - as a catalytic nanoparticle), and magnetic nanostructures for information storage. "The ...
Samasource Hosts the First Annual GiveWork Gala on November 12th at the University Club of San Franc 7 Nov 2009 11:10 GMT
... event will feature a live auction, with items for bid including a conversation with Nobel Prize laureates George Akerlof and Myron Scholes, a secret challenge with "The 4-Hour Workweek" author ...
Kolkata teenager keen to fight 'greenhouse effect' 7 Nov 2009 11:12 GMT
... sparingly used," Ishita added. Meanwhile, Rishika says that Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, who recently received Nobel Prize for being the chief of UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), inspired her ...
British PM calls for talks on finance levy 7 Nov 2009 11:50 GMT
... the so-called Tobin tax - a flat tax on currency transactions named after the Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin - can dry up world liquidity. Supporters suggest they could protect ...
Brown says G20 should consider transactions tax 7 Nov 2009 12:15 GMT
... nations leading calls for its introduction. The tax was originally proposed in 1971 by Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin as a means of reducing speculation in global markets, but Tobin ...
Britain urges steps to insure financial system 7 Nov 2009 12:30 GMT
... the so-called Tobin tax -- a flat tax on currency transactions named after the Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin -- can dry up world liquidity. Supporters suggest they could protect ...

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Teachers highlight importance of education in recession 7 Nov 2009 12:32 GMT
... today which aims to highlight the social importance of education during the downturn. The Nobel-prize winning poet Seamus Heany delivered the keynote address at the event during which he ...
UK PM urges financial transactions tax 7 Nov 2009 12:36 GMT
... nations leading calls for its introduction. The tax was originally proposed in 1971 by Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin as a means of reducing speculation in global markets, but Tobin ...
Britain calls for steps on insuring global financial system, action now on climate financing 7 Nov 2009 12:40 GMT
... the so-called Tobin tax — a flat tax on currency transactions named after the Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin — can dry up world liquidity. Supporters suggest they could protect ...
Britain urges steps to insure financial system 7 Nov 2009 13:00 GMT
... the so-called Tobin tax - a flat tax on currency transactions named after the Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin - can dry up world liquidity. Supporters suggest they could protect ...
UK PM urges financial transactions tax 7 Nov 2009 13:00 GMT
... nations leading calls for its introduction. The tax was originally proposed in 1971 by Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin as a means of reducing speculation in global markets, but Tobin ...