European Commission wants total overhaul of research policy to close gap with US, othersBRUSSELS — European authorities and industry must increase funding for scientific research and improve cooperation to try to close the technology gap with the United States, the European Commission said Tuesday. Excerpts: Citation for 2009 Nobel Prize in physicsExcerpts from the citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Institute says Kao was honored for breakthroughs in fiber optics while Boyle and Smith were honored for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit. Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics through 2008Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: Tough anti-doping laws could become a requirement for countries hoping to host the OlympicsCOPENHAGEN — Countries could be barred from hosting the Olympics, starting with the 2018 games, if they don’t have laws that empower police to raid and investigate those suspected of helping athletes use performance-enhancing drugs. Census shows more Americans trying their hand at raising crops, livestock on ‘hobby farms’GEM, Ind. — Most evenings, Gary Mithoefer can be found at the end of a long gravel driveway off a busy highway, tending two garden plots filled with white sweet potatoes, squash, cabbages and a dozen other vegetables still thriving in early fall. 2016 Olympic bid team returns home; Daley says Chicago has bright future even without gamesCHICAGO — It wasn’t the homecoming Chicago’s Olympic delegation expected. Chicago Olympics loss means more than bruised ego, forces city to rethink jobs, economy, plansCHICAGO — Chicago’s dream of an Olympics-sized stimulus was dashed when the 2016 Summer Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, and the loss amounts to more than a bruised ego for the nation’s third-largest city. Olympic boom? Or Olympic bust? Going for the gold doesn’t always pay off for Olympic hostsBig sporting events have big budgets. Depending whom you ask, they have big payoffs, too. Analysis: Just a game? Olympics defeat could feed doubts about Obama on weightier subjectsWASHINGTON — OK, so it wasn’t health care, climate change or war. Still, President Barack Obama’s high-profile failure to win the Olympics for Chicago could feed negative narratives already nipping at his heels — that he’s a better talker than closer, more celebrity than statesman. Cry me a Rio: Brazilian president reduced to tears after South America gets its 1st OlympicsCOPENHAGEN — Let the Olympic Carnival begin. And the crying, too. Experts doubt NJ court ruling on polling place buffer zones will withstand challengeTRENTON, N.J. — A court decision that bars exit polling within 100 feet of New Jersey polling places is unlikely to stand because federal courts around the country have consistently rejected such restrictions, according to legal and polling experts. Obama’s press secretary says president is ‘disappointed’ Chicago missed getting 2016 OlympicsABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Barack Obama is “disappointed” Chicago missed getting the 20016 Olympic Games but doesn’t regret putting so much on the line to argue for it, his chief spokesman said Friday. Chicago goes down in stunning defeat, losing in first round of IOC votingCOPENHAGEN — Chicago was expected to be one of the last two cities in the race. Instead, it was the first to go. Stunned silence, sadness in Chicago as 2016 Olympics bid goes elsewhereCHICAGO — So much for Da Games. Thousands gathered in Chicago stand in stunned silence after Olympics bid goes elsewhereCHICAGO — Thousands of people stood in bewildered silence in downtown Chicago on Friday after the International Olympic Committee surprised everyone by dumping the city from the race for 2016 Summer Olympics in the first round of voting. Obamas make personal appeal for Chicago’s Olympics bid, but are denied sucess in the votingCOPENHAGEN — Chicago’s early exit from finalist balloting for the 2016 Olympics was a personal setback for President Barack Obama and a painful defeat for America’s most prominent Midwestern city. Obama uses personal hopes to boost Chicago’s Olympics bid in CopenhagenCOPENHAGEN — President Barack Obama says the United States is “ready and eager” to host the 2016 Olympics in his adoptive hometown of Chicago. Facts about next week’s Nobel Prize announcementsThe winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes will be announced in the next two weeks, starting with the medicine prize on Monday. Here are some brief explanations of how the award winners are picked and announced. Nobel glory, $1.4 million check await handful of world’s top scientists
Obama hopes to put Chicago’s Olympics bid over the top with personal pitch in CopenhagenCOPENHAGEN — In a quick dash of salesmanship, President Barack Obama is in the Danish capital, putting his personal powers of persuasion on the line to boost Chicago’s Olympics bid. City of Broad Shoulders pins Olympic hopes on a skinny left-handed closerIt’s too bad the International Olympic Committee isn’t taking bribes anymore. Imagine what a lock Chicago would be then. White House takes aggressive posture against Fox commentators, singles out Glenn BeckWASHINGTON — Harry S. Truman banned reporters he disliked from his presidential yacht. Franklin Roosevelt placed his journalistic critics out of earshot at the back of the room during presidential press conferences. Commerce Department rules out seeking a halt to immigration raids to improve census countWASHINGTON — With the 2010 census six months away, the Commerce Department said Thursday it won’t seek a halt to immigration raids as it did in the previous census in hopes of improving participation in hard-to-count communities. Maine ethics commission approves probe of anti-gay marriage fundraisingAUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s campaign oversight board overruled a staff recommendation Thursday and authorized an investigation into fundraising by groups supporting the campaign to repeal the state’s gay marriage law in a Nov. 3 referendum. On the Money: How to get to the Olympics, and what you’ll pay at home or abroadNEW YORK — Even if Chicago isn’t selected to host the 2016 Summer Games later this week, Olympic fever might have you itching to see the games in person. With tanks, troops and kitsch, China celebrates 60 years of communist rule and its new powerCommunist China marks 60 years with tanks, kitsch BEIJING — Jets, tanks and missile-toting trucks thundered through Beijing on Thursday in a show of military muscle to celebrate six decades of communist rule and China’s transformation from a war-battered regional player into global economic superpower. Brazilian president borrows from Barack Obama in plugging Rio’s 2016 Olympic bid: ‘Yes We Can’COPENHAGEN — Brazil’s leader is borrowing President Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” catchphrase to plug Rio de Janeiro’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics. First lady Michelle Obama arrives in Copenhagen ahead of IOC vote on 2016 Olympic hostCOPENHAGEN — Michelle Obama says the Olympics have the power to transform the lives of children in Chicago and around the country, inspiring them to be the next David Robinson, Nadia Comaneci. Census data show a widening income gap in US as poor people take bigger hit in recessionWASHINGTON — The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets. Obama’s Big Windup: President to make unprecedented personal appeal for Olympics in ChicagoFYI–Need to cut and past newest photos to FRONT of photo string. First photo appears on Yahoo!, other sites. Thanks. |
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Nobel glory awaits handful of top scientists
