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1. Nobel Peace Prize winners and eating chocolate: A sweet correlation
(Life/Style)

... more laureates.” He also calculated that it would take about 14 ounces of chocolate being eaten by each person every year to come up with another Nobel Prize winner. That would be the equivalent of nine ...

2. Scientists warn bioterrorism and global warming will draw Doomsday closer
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 18 Nobel Laureates. The furthest away it has ever been is 17 minutes, in 1991, with the advent of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between Russia and the ...

3. Dalai Lama coming to help Newark
(Life/Style)

... conflicts and problems. Through panels and workshops, the Summit will present Nobel Laureates, civic leaders, organizations, scholars and activists, from both Newark and around the country and world who ...

4. Astrophysicists Lyman Page and David Spergel win Shaw Prize for pioneering work on NASA satellite
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

...  The Shaw Prizes were first awarded in 2004. Princeton cosmologist James Peebles and mathematician Andrew Wiles have previously received the awards, in 2004 and 2005 respectively. The new Shaw laureates ...

5. World community ‘surprised’ Obama received Nobel Peace Prize
(World/International)

... 2002 for efforts to promote peace, human rights, and economic development after leaving the presidency in 1981. Other Nobel peace laureates were not as sanguine. Mairead Maguire, who won the prize in ...

6. New administration, Congress return science to the front burner
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of steps that, in the president's words, will "restore science to its rightful place." Their actions include increased federal funding for scientific research and appointing Nobel laureates to key leadership ...