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Africa: Citizens, Not Mo Ibrahim, Will Deliver Change in Their Leaders
Kampala :: Uganda | 2 days ago
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Citizens, Not Mo Ibrahim, Will Deliver Change in Their Leaders Joe Powell 3 November 2009 column Kampala — The Mo Ibrahim Award for excellence in African leadership has in its short lifetime become one of the world's most talked about honours.
Tags: Mo Ibrahim, Uganda, Kampala, Punahou School alumni, Nobel Prize, Presidents of the United Nations Security Council, Barack Obama, Luo people, Human Interest
India can win Nobel for filth, says Jairam Ramesh
New Delhi :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, known for courting controversy and making candid remarks, on Friday said if there was a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India would get it. “Our cities are the dirtiest cities of the world...The minister was talking...
Tags: Indian, Jairam Ramesh, nobel prize, Vijay Kelkar, finances commission, public sector, minister jairam, dirtiest cities, Finance Commission, Mr Kelkar, India, New Delhi, Waste management, Dirt, Cleanliness, Squatting, Waste, Environment, Hygiene, Waste Management Inc, Delhi, The Energy and Resources Institute, Dhaka, Indian National Congress, Economists, Jairam, Indian films, Disinvestment, Investment, International sanctions, Social responsibility, Business Finance
'Anti-Semites have the say in Budapest'
Budapest :: Hungary | 5 days ago
Credibility On the occasion of Imre Kertész's 80th birthday last Monday, the German newspaper Die Welt published an interview with the Nobel Prize-winning author ("Fateless", "Kaddish for an Unborn Child"). When the journalist mentioned how lucky the city of Berlin...
Tags: Imre Kertész, Hungary, Budapest, nobel prize, Berliner, semites having, metropolitan person, Imre, Kertￃﾩsz, Imre Kertￃﾩsz, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Fateless, Social Issues
The 'accidental' scientist - Jamaica's own Nobel Prize nominee
Kingston :: Jamaica | 6 days ago
Credibility In the future, I will become a gynaecologist" and "I know I will be a horticultural engineer" are some of the introductory utterances students make on our local quiz shows. Some will achieve their goals; other won't, for various reasons. And there are...
Tags: Bertram Oliver Fraser-Reid, Clarendon College, Professsor Bertram Fraser-Reid, Bert Fraser-Reid, Jamaican National Foundation, nobel prize, Canada, Institute of Jamaica, Jamaica, Kingston, Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Bertram Fraser-Reid, Organists, Pianists, Education
GENDER: "Truly Exciting If the U.S. Could Ratify CEDAW" - Part 2
Rome :: Italy | 7 days ago
Credibility On its 30th anniversary, just seven U.N. member states continue to refuse to accept the only international instrument that comprehensively addresses women's rights within political, civil, cultural, economic and social life...It would be truly exciting...
Tags: gender equality, U.S, U.N. General Assembly, human rights, ratify cedaw, nobel prize, truly exciting, Italy, Rome, Discrimination law, United Nations Development Fund for Women, Reservation, Women's rights, Human rights instruments, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Social Issues
Panda-poop prof scoops Ig Nobel honor
Tōkyō :: Japan | 8 days ago
Credibility Bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas can be used to reduce food waste to less than 10 percent of its original mass. For making this stunning — and potentially invaluable — scientific discovery, Fumiaki Taguchi, Professor Emeritus of Kitasato...
Tags: Fumiaki Taguchi, nobel prize, Japan Language, The Japan Times, nobel laureates, giant panda, organic waste, Japan, Tōkyō, Feces, EDGE Species, Harvard University, Ig Nobel Prize
Africa: Legitimating Common Property and the Nobel Prize
Washington :: WA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Legitimating Common Property and the Nobel Prize Korir Sing'oei 12 November 2009 opinion Much time has already been spent in justifying or dismissing President Obama's selection for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. In contrast, little attention has been...
Tags: nobel prize, Washington, Nobel Peace Prize, Elinor Ostrom, Ostrom, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Nobel-winning Russian physicist dies at 93
Moscow :: Russia | 13 days ago
Credibility Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow...Ginzburg died late Sunday of cardiac arrest, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday. Ginsburg won the 2003 Nobel Prize...
Tags: Vitaly Ginzburg, Mr. Ginzburg, Moscow, nobel prize, Russian Academy of Sciences, hydrogen bomb, soviet hydrogen, ginzburg died
NIST's Gebbie helps guide world-class physics research
Washington :: DC :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Physics Laboratory into an organization that has produced three Nobel Prize winners. Gebbie pioneered the practical application of emerging technologies and helped enhance career opportunities for women, minorities and other young scientists in the field.
Tags: nobel prize, prize winners
The Dirtbag Greatest Hits: 2009 - 2009
Reading the dirtbagchronicle is like buying an album from your favorite band. Two of the songs are great and the rest suck. I picked my favorite 10 from the 100 or so that have been posted since June. They probably aren't your favorites, but the Greatest...
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