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...envy the people on the Nobel Prize committee at all. It's an extremely difficult job," says Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber. "It's somewhat sad that the Nobel Prize rewards such few people, and in the long run, somewhat randomly...
...been transformed from a purely economic institution to a political one, Britain has been slow to adapt, said Lord Roy Jenkins, chancellor of Oxford University...
Another work in this gallery commands attention: Roy Lichtenstein's "Glass V," a human-size painted bronze sculpture of a drinking glass. It's the only three-dimensional work in the show (although it appears flat from most angles) and, as a sculpture, is less often on display than his many paintings...
...many experts, the debate over who wins and loses as U.S. companies build factories abroad misses the point. The shift of expertise and capital, they contend, is inevitable. "The underlying skills in China are so great that any American company that transfers technology will create rivals," says Roy ( Grow, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The solution, Grow adds, is for American firms to develop new know-how faster than they can give away their skills...
...jury selection by race or gender is a tricky game. In the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, defense attorney Roy Black was astonished by jury ^ research showing that conservative women over 40 were the people most likely to acquit his client. "They were most skeptical of claims made by younger women who would go out all night in bars," he says...