The IMF Recognizes Nobel Prize Winner.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 October 2008-The IMF Recognizes Nobel Prize Winner(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) - supporting research and providing education, advocacy, and support for myeloma patients, families, researchers, and physicians - congratulated French researcher Dr. Luc Montagnier as co-recipient of the...

Comprehension.
Fill in the circle next to the correct answer. 1. The federal government will. now insure personal bank accounts up to how much money? (A) $20,000 (B) $100,000 (C) $250,000 2. What did the winners of the 2008 Nobel...

Virus hunters.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [4] STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- By 1983, AIDS was becoming a deadly epidemic. No one knew what was causing it, and there was no treatment. Then, French scientists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi discovered an unusual virus in the blood of an AIDS patient. The virus...

Nobel Prize winner will explain how Einstein's theories still apply today.
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard Bill Phillips works in a world where speeding atoms are slowed to a crawl using "optical molasses," where temperatures drop to the tiniest fraction of a degree above absolute zero and where clocks aren't off by a second over 80 million years....

Were U.S. writers dissed? You betcha'; Firestorm ignited at Swedish Academy.
Byline: Chris Sinacola COLUMN: Sina-cism In case you were too busy reading John Grisham's latest novel and missed it, the head honcho of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl, opined the other day that Americans are too ignorant to compete with Europeans for the Nobel Prize...

Constitutional Court of Spain rules that its courts may hear genocide cases even if they do not involve Spanish citizens, and holds that principle of "universal jurisdiction" takes precedence over alleged national interests.
In 1999, Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu filed a lawsuit in Spain against Guatemalan officials, including the former Minister of the Interior, alleging injuries from crimes of genocide, torture, terrorism, murder and illegal detention committed in Guatemala between 1978 and 1986. The underlying events included the 1980...

Moscow court rules for family in Pasternak estate litigation.
The decade-long legal struggle over the exclusive rights to Nobel Prize-winner Boris L. Pasternak's manuscripts and notes came to a head on April 20 last. A Moscow court ruled in favor of his daughter-in-law Natalia Pasternak by dismissing the appeal of Olga Ivinskaya, the woman who was the model...

Tokyo court awards record sum to individual inventor.
On January 30, 2004, the Tokyo District Court ordered Nichia Corporation to pay Shuji Nakamura $189 million for developing the blue light-emitting diode or LED during his two decades of employment at Nichia. The award reportedly is the largest ever given to an individual in a Japanese patent case....

Serendipity in physics research.
This paper relates several serendipitous discoveries in physics in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are all experimental in nature and the places range from reputable universities to modern research laboratories. The discoverers could be working in solo or in group. The subject discovered ranges from the finest nucleus...

The Nobel Prize backstories.
Byline: Thoru Pederson COLUMN: AS I SEE IT Most everyone has heard of the Nobel Prizes and people admire pioneers in science and medicine, but greater interest lies, understandably, in the payoffs of these discoveries. Last week the world learned that, in the category of...