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Jan C. Ting (above), a law professor at Temple U. advising Rudolph W. Giuliani's campaign, says scholars in his field are expected to have an impact on the political system. (Photograph by Jim Graham) — Read story
Nobel Peace Prize for Climate-Change Scientists and Al Gore Reflects Work Across Academe
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this morning that the former U.S. vice president Albert A. Gore Jr. and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will share the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. Doris Lessing, Chronicler of Rifts, Wins Nobel Prize in Literature Concern Over a Departure From JSTOR Pioneer in Surface Chemistry Wins Nobel Prize Doris Lessing, Chronicler of Many Rifts, Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2 European Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Nanotech Discovery Used in Computer Hard Drives The Lure of the Campaign Trail 3 Scientists Will Share Nobel Prize for Inactivating Mouse Genes Institute of Medicine Announces 65 New Members Few Conservatives but Many Centrists Found in American Academe GHOST MANAGERS: Drug companies play a far bigger role than previously suspected in the publication of journal articles, charges a Canadian academic. INTERNATIONAL MOVE: Woo Suk Hwang, the infamous former star of South Korea's stem-cell program, has reportedly restarted his cloning research in Thailand. PRESSURE FOR CHANGE: The U.S. Treasury Department has issued new regulations on how American publishers may deal with works by scholars in countries under U.S. trade embargoes. A CLEAN, WELL-LOADED ARCHIVE: Middlebury College has acquired a large cache of Hemingwayana from two nieces of the late author. ONCE MORE, THE IG NOBELS: This year's awards go to research projects involving Viagra for hamsters, wrinkled sheets, and the gay bomb, among other efforts. Publishing
New Scholarly Books: Hot Type: Long-unpublished novels by two late authors have turned up in the fall catalog of the University of Florida Press, which says it's just a coincidence. Nota Bene: A political scientist examines why countries in the Middle East and East Asia make different decisions about seeking nuclear weapons. Verbatim: A historian from the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, says political assassinations rarely yield the desired results. What they're reading on college campuses: A list of the best-selling books.
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