Gene's Discoverer Left Out Of Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded this week to three scientists working in the United States for their work on a jellyfish protein that glows in the dark. But the scientist who found...
Presidential Campaigns Battle Over Iowa
Al Gore won Iowa in 2000, narrowly. President Bush carried the state in 2004, narrowly. This year's presidential contest also looks close, both nationally and in Iowa. Republican and...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A 'Man With A Mission'
The Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system has died of heart failure. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was 89. NPR's Anne Garrels recalls a rare...
Obama Wins Gore Endorsement, Plans Iraq Visit
In Detroit on Monday, former Vice President Al Gore announced his backing of Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us...
Environmentalists Point Beyond Global Warming
Public awareness of climate change has grown dramatically in just a few years, in large part because of Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Most of Gore's...
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