Nobel Prize
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes (L) is congratulated by Nobel Prize winner Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez during a celebration for Fuentes' 80th birthday in Mexico City, on November 17, 2008. Mexican Carlos Fuentes died on May 15, 2012 informed Mexican President Felipe Calderon. He was 83.
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Public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy... Schools are about more than producing efficient workers or future winners of the Nobel Prize for science. They are the place in this society where children from a variety of backgrounds come together and, at least in theory, learn to talk, play, and work together.
Look hot, and we might just consider you for the Nobel Prize.
Nobel Prize laureate Mother Teresa, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and now me, the fake-rap-wiener-songs guy.More quotes »
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Monumenta art show opens in Paris' Grand Palais
more than 270,000 people in six and a half weeks.But as ever, Buren, who won 2007's "Praemium Imperiale" award, akin to the Nobel Prize for art, thinks outside the box.Buren's attempt sees myriad translucent circles in red, blue, green and yellow installed Read more »
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Finely Beaded with Pearls of Weirdness
the help of cutting edge technology and Nobel Prize winning physicist (and Deadhead) George Smoot, Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart has been recording the sounds of the origins of the universe for several years. This mind (and time) bending research Read more »
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2nd neutrino team refutes faster-than-light find
than light, a feat that goes against Albert Einstein 's special theory of relativity which underlies much of modern physics. Nobel Prize winning physicist Carlo Rubbia said his team, called ICARUS, used a similar experiment to trap neutrinos fired from the Read more »
Around the web
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Dutch Company Claims To Colonize Mars By 2023 [VIDEO]
internet hoax, a Dutch company has released a video stating that they plan to colonize Mars by the year 2023. Backed by Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Gerard ‘t Hooft, this project is claiming that it will take seven years for the first 5/31/12 from The Inquisitr Read more »
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Dinner with Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman
a grad student who was late with a dissertation. With that, he was out the door like a whirlwind. I don’t get to meet with Nobel Prize winners very often, so I thought I would give you the full blast. Believe it or not, I left out some of his more incendiary 7:57 AM from Resource Investor Read more »
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Today's weather: Cool again, clouds to dominate skies
entrenched in learning, is how Ei-ichi Negishi described his early years in the U.S.- 11:27 pm The day after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Purdue University professor Ei-ichi Negishi is...- 3:53 pm A dream is now reality.- 3:53 pm Penniless, but entrenched 7:19 AM from The Courier-Journal Read more »
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Much for an economist to applaud in Indiana
May 1988, Professor James McGill Buchanan, the 1986 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, told the graduating class at Ball State University that he Âhad never been attracted to the romantic nonsense that government or politicians know what is best. Â 3:52 AM from The Star-Press | Muncie, IN Read more »
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Facing reality in post-apartheid South Africa
those that are tend to be satires or focus on the political machinations of those in charge. Into this literary desert comes Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, whose books chronicle the struggles of South Africans during and now following apartheid. Her new 12:27 AM from Miami Herald Read more »
