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Geoengineering has long been the province of kooks, but as the difficulty of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has become harder to ignore, it is slowly emerging as an option of last resort. The tipping point came in 2006, when the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen published an editorial examining the possibility of releasing vast amounts of sulfurous debris into the atmosphere to create a haze that would keep the planet cool. "Over the past couple of years, it's gone from an outsider thing to something that is increasingly discussed," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution...
...wholly undermined by insult warfare. Not to mention that an extended period of bare-knuckle politics threatens to undo all the energy the Democratic Party has amassed in a campaign that featured both the potential first female president and potentially the first African American. For Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and senior advisor to Obama’s campaign, calling Clinton a “monster” is to tread in dangerous waters. And she rightfully resigned from the campaign. A comment made by a Clinton spokesman, Howard Wolfson...
Linda B. Buck, who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her work on the sense of smell, was a Harvard Medical School professor of neurobiology at the time of publication and is listed as the principal investigator in the retracted article...
...study in question, which was published in Nature in 2001, investigated the connection between the olfactory and nervous systems of mice, but is not a part of the work recognized by Buck’s Nobel Prize...
...excellent foreign policy advisor for any President, and she really does care about international cooperation,” Ayele said. “I don’t think that anyone should judge her simply by her slip-up.” Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” explored America’s response to and understanding of various genocides in the 20th century. As a journalist, she helped to cover the genocide in the Yugoslav wars. Although Power is continuing to support...