Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
SAN JOSE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore today received the 2009 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award given by The Tech Museum as part of its international program, The Tech Awards.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
SAN JOSE, CA -- 11/20/09 -- Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore today received the 2009 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award given by The Tech Museum as part of its international program, The ..
Healthcare, etc. (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Where to begin? The phrase "unintended consequences" has been making rounds in healthcare, politics, and other venues of late. It appears most pronounced in healthcare, and has been clearly brought out by the cancer screening debate last week: while taking for gospel that early detection saves lives, we have been subjecting countless people to unnecessary, invasive and sometimes deadly interventions....
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
More errors in his new book... Former vice president Al Gore has always been one of the more divisive figures in the debate about manmade climate change. As one of the most visible people sounding the alarm on climate change, he is quick to come under fire. His new book “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” provides plenty of ammunition for global warming skeptics without them...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
I've just finished Herzog - a book that I meant to read five years ago. Let me begin by stating the obvious: this is a masterful novel. Narrative ingenuity, philosophical insight, cultural mayhem - it's all there, served with consistent (but always animated) prose. I must say, there's something about Bellow's novels which seem to outlast those of Roth. Maybe it's the writing itself which is superior;...
PA Pundits (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Noel Sheppard UPDATE AT END OF POST: Gore prominently quotes Deuteronomy, “I’m offering you the choice of life or death.” The cover of Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s new book “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” was intentionally doctored to exaggerate the appearance of hurricanes in the northern hemisphere as well as reduce the [...]
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Afrique en ligne reports that Soyinka worried about consequences of financial crisis on African literature , as the Nobel laureate worries that: "This crisis is going to cause young Africans to lose interest in reading and books. They are going to move towards telefilms, videos and cinema. And this tendency worries me," said the Nigerian novelist and playwright in an interview with PANA...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Independent publisher sees off competition in fierce auction for rights to Nobel winner Nobel laureate Herta Müller's new novel Atemschaukel, which follows the story of a German-Romanian teenager deported to a Ukrainian labour camp, will be published in the UK next year after independent press Portobello Books fought off five other publishers to acquire translation rights. Associate publisher...
China e-Lobby (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
This past week, the anti-Communist community came to grips with the painful reality best described by this summary of the Greek tragedy genre: "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." After spending nearly ten years trying to warn my fellow Americans about the dangers of the Chinese Communist Party (and compared to some of the giants in the movement, I'm still a rookie), it...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
by Dani Rodrik project-syndicate.org (2009) Something happened in late August that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. A leading policymaker in the Anglo-American empire of finance actually came out in support of a Tobin tax - a global tax on financial transactions. The official in question was Adair Turner, the head of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority, the country's chief financial...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
FORMER Military Administrator of old Bendel State, General Tunde Ogbeha, and former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Reverend Peter Obadan, weekend, disagreed with the Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on his condemnation of Senate President, David Mark, over his defence of Prof. Maurice Iwu on the nation's electoral problems.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
CHENNAI: Research scholars and students from various colleges and schools in the city interacted with Physics Nobel laureate Gerardus ‘t Hooft at a programme organised by Chennai Mathematical Institute at the Central Leather Research ...
The Common Room (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Seth Liebsohn : Yesterday, I detailed how little respect the Chinese authorities gave the Obama administration in its requests for media, "less respect than was given presidents Bush or Clinton" was how the New York Times put it yesterday. "A retreat," the NYT said. This morning the LAT has more, about less: "In China, Obama's Hosts Show No Signs of Budging" is the headline....
PACIFIST PEOPLE POWER (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Calls from the French foreign ministry to release Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi have been welcomed by campaigners in France who say that Western engagement with the regime is long overdue. A statement released by the foreign ministry yesterday stated that “we hope that this call to the Burmese prime minister to release all political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi will be heard”....
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Jeremy Haber's star rose and and fell before we had a chance to draft a post. Haber is a first year student at Harvard Law School and recently made the finals in the Washington Post's " America's Next Great Pundit " contest. From the Harvard Crimson via ABA Journal : Jeremy L. Haber, a first year student at the Law School, is one of four finalists remaining in the Post's "America's...
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