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• American Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
Aumann, of Israel and the United States, and American Thomas C. Schelling, for their work in game-theory analysis. —2004: Finn E. Kydland, Norway, and Edward C. Prescott, United States, for their contribution to dynamic macroeconomics. —2003 ...
• Obama-supporting nun, 106, shocked by fame
After Gaudette appeared on CBS News in the United States and on BBC radio saying she was voting for the first time since 1952 and that it would be for Obama, the convent was besieged by calls from reporters and media outlets across the world. "I'm ...
• Thunderous storm-chasing vacations
This year, storm season in the United States was a particularly active one, with more than 1,000 twisters and countless storms that churned, crashed and flashed across the country. But not everyone in Tornado Alley—roughly defined as the vast ...
• Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Palade dies at 95
... one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at the University of California, San Diego, has died. He was 95. Palade died Tuesday, the university announced. He was born in Romania, earned his medical degree there and came to the United States ...
• Iran interfering in U.S.-Iraq pact, general says
Ray Odierno said in an interview that Iran, a Shiite Islamic nation eyed warily by the United States and Sunni Arab countries, is working publicly and covertly to undermine the status-of-forces agreement as officials from Iraq and the United States ...