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Cervical cancer vaccine should be cheaper: Nobel laureate
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | about 21 hours ago
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Its price needs to be drastically reduced, especially in countries like India, where the risk of this disease is threatening," Hausen told an interactive session organised here by the Cancer Foundation of India (CFI). "I think more number of companies...
Tags: cervical cancer, Cancer Foundation of India, Hausen, nobel laureate, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Health Medical Pharma, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Immunology, HPV vaccine, Vaccines, Papillomavirus, Vaccination, Cancer
Women Leaders Urge Clinton: Condemn Anti-Women Violence in Honduras
"Given Secretary Clinton's commitment to women's rights and her pledge to fight violence against women, we are asking her to speak out about the dangerous and appalling situation faced by Honduran women." Jody Williams, Nobel Laureate More than...
Tags: Honduras, military coup, de facto government, elections, Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize, Guatemala civil war, Mairead Maguire, Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jody Williams, womens rights, Nobel Laureate, War Conflict, Rachel Vincent, Lisa VeneKlasen, Honduran, allnews, Washington, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human rights in Honduras, Chronology of events of the 2009 Honduran coup d'ￃﾩtat, Honduran constitutional crisis, Politics, human rights, Social Issues
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen says happiness important for growth
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University in the U.S., welcomed France's move. He said considering such indices rather than just the narrowly focused GDP -- a country's total value of goods and services produced -- could improve...
Tags: nobel laureate, New York City, Welfare economics, Macroeconomics, Amartya Sen, Development economics, Gross domestic product, Development economists, Fellows of the Econometric Society, International development, Social Issues, Business Finance
Nobel Laureate Opens Poverty Reduction Center in Thailand
Ait :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility The Nobel laureate who pioneered the concept of micro-credit, Muhammad Yunus, has opened a research center in Thailand aimed at reducing poverty in Southeast Asia. The center is the first outside Bangladesh, where Muhammad Yunus established a micro-credit...
Tags: Muhammad Yunus, nobel laureate
Myanmar's Suu Kyi ordered back into house detention
Yangon :: Myanmar | 3 months ago
Credibility YANGON: A court in army-ruled Myanmar on Tuesday sentenced opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in detention, a verdict that drew condemnation abroad and will keep her off the political stage ahead of next year's elections. The court handed...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, Burma, nobel laureate
Michael Jackson and Tagore
Michael Jackson, in his last days, was inspired by none other than Rabindra Nath Tagore – the Nobel laureate of India. A report mentions that Michael had contacted the famous Indian music composer A R Rahman and had expressed a desire to sing...
Tags: Michael Jackson, rabindra nath tagore, nobel laureate, a r rehman
The school life of Nobel laureate Tagore
If historians are to be believed, it seems that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore never did well in school. On the occasion of his 150th year birth anniversary celebrations, efforts are on to delve into the archives and come up with information pertaining...
Tags: nobel laureate, rabindra nath tagore, st xaviers school kolkata
Obama’s energy pick optimistic on new biofuels
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate selected to be the next energy secretary, says he's optimistic that the country can commercialize new forms of biofuels that won't come from food crops. The next generation of biofuels won't necessarily be ethanol, Chu said...
Tags: nobel laureate
The problem with Pinteresque politics
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility Respond Here, Sandy Starr argues that Harold Pinter’s writing style, so mesmerising on the stage, was intrinsically unsuited for radical activism. Further below, James Heartfield asks how this crackling playwright from the East End became a left-wing...
Tags: Harold Pinter, Harold Pinter Dead, nobel laureate, nobel prize
Harold Pinter Interview
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility Several months back, a colleague handed me a copy of the British journal The New Internationalist. The issue would interest me, she said, because it included a special section on U.S. prisons and because Harold Pinter had written an essay for it. (She...
Tags: Harold Pinter, Mr. Pinter, Pinter Review, Michael Gambon, London, nobel laureate
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