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Liberia denies resource deals violated laws
Reuters* Audit cast doubt on good governance efforts * Minister says no laws violated MONROVIA, May 3 (Reuters) - The Liberian government denied on Friday it had violated its own laws in awarding resource contracts and pledged to implement the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Liberia, Entertainment Events, Political Corruption
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EXCLUSIVE-Resource deals audit overshadows Liberia anti-graft push
Reuters* Only two of 68 audited contracts deemed properly awarded -draft * Presidency says it cannot pre-empt final report * Officials deny trying to derail transparency drive * Liberia among Africa's fastest growing economies * Government "scared to death"...Tags: Laws, International Monetary Fund, Crime, Law and Justice, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia
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Dr. Christian de Duve dies at 95; Nobel-winning scientist
For the first half of the 20th century, the cell was a mysterious, unfathomable entity. Nutrients went in and hormones, wastes and other products came out. But what happened in between was anybody's guess. Light microscopes could reveal the rough...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Physiology, New York City, Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities
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Dalai Lama packs UM Comcast Center for address on compassion
He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down,"...
Tags: Christianity, Teaching and Learning, Dalai Lama, Roman Catholicism, Jimmy Carter
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Hopkins' Nobel winner Riess to speak at Baltimore synagogue Sunday
Adam Riess, the Nobel Prize-winning astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss the expansion of the universe and its mysteries in an event at Bolton Street Synagogue on Sunday. Riess will present and lead a discussion titled...
Tags: Maryland Science Center, Awards and Prizes, Judaism, Bolton Hill, Johns Hopkins University
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Quick Takes: Own William Faulkner's Nobel
New Yorkers got a preview Wednesday of an auction rarity: a Nobel Prize for literature. The 1950 medal belonged to William Faulkner, one of America's best-known and respected novelists. It comes with a hand-edited draft of Faulkner's acceptance speech;...Tags: Auction Service, Television, Bare (music group), War Horse (movie), Buckwild (tv program)
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Charlotte Bronte poem: $47,000 an inch
A tiny poem written by a teenage Charlotte Bronte has sold for more than $140,000, the Guardian reports. Called "I've Been Wandering in the Greenwoods," the poem, composed when Bronte was 13 years old, is handwritten on a piece of paper just three...
Tags: Auction Service, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Poetry, Literature
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Discrimination, Melissa Harris, Charter Schools, Teaching and Learning
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Essay: Sitting in judgment
The word is "wodge" — and it explains everything. Wodge is a wonderful word. A playful word. Fun to say, fun to write, fun to see on the page. Had it not already existed, Dr. Seuss surely would have invented it. I first heard it a few years ago,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Dillard's Incorporated, Arts and Culture, Journalism, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'
About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...
Tags: Physiology, University of Cambridge, Values, Ethics, Infertility
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For sale, one Nobel Prize in literature: The Faulkner auction
New Yorkers got a preview Wednesday of an auction rarity: A Nobel Prize for literature. The 1950 medal belonged to William Faulkner, one of America's best-known and respected novelists. It comes with a hand-edited draft of Faulkner's acceptance speech;...
Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Awards and Prizes, Auction Service, Arts and Culture, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated
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Orlando marketer works to bring recognition to slain civil-rights icon Medgar Evers
"Man has not until this day, done what God would have us do. That is, love our neighbor as ourselves, especially if one neighbor happens to be black, and the other neighbor white." — Medgar Evers 1963 was an eventful year in America — one...Tags: Christianity, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights
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