Race row claims Nobel laureate Watson
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DNA scientist resigns as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York following remarks about intelligence of black people.
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Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, one of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died Tuesday in London. He was 88.
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Didn't we hear that one somewhere before? Attempts to define race through science haven't had an entirely positive press subsequent to the collapse of the Third Reich, but the Weird Science Department of the UK Government could well be skittering on that very patch of thin ice. Lord Triesman, the Prime minister's Special Envoy for Returns, this week said that work on the "scientific and technical identification of nationality" will be "an important tool" to be used for the return of illegal immigrants to their countries of origin.â¦
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NAIROBI -- Wangari Maathai made a typically combative start to her first full day as a Nobel laureate yesterday, defending a recent suggestion that the HIV virus might have been made in a laboratory as a plot against Africans.
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Roger D. Kornberg, a biochemist at Stanford University, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for figuring out the intricate way in which information in the DNA of a gene is copied to provide the instructions for building and running a living cell.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with the two scientists credited for describing the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson, died Tuesday at a London hospital.
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Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people.
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Wangari Maathai has made a typically combative start to her first full day as a Nobel laureate, defending a recent suggestion that the HIV virus might have been made in a laboratory as a plot against Africans.
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Big Blues see red over pink adoption A lesbian who had a long term relationship with one of the daughters of IBM president Thomas J. Watson Jr. is fighting for her right to a share of his fortune.â¦
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Violence, sexuality and gender politics dominate the controversial writing of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Literature.
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A sad thing happened during Formula One testing last weekend outside of Barcelona. Fans attending the test spewed racist taunts at Lewis Hamilton, who last year became the first black driver in series history, and made gestures at him that would've been offensive 50 years ago.
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear favorite in the prediction derby.
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A Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma who has run into trouble over verbal gaffes was drawing fire again on Friday for saying black men have a "genetic predisposition" for a lower life expectancy than whites.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19 -- James Watson, who in 1962 shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, on Friday canceled a tour to promote his latest book after suggesting in a published interview that black people are less intelligent than whites.
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James Watson, the Nobel laureate who sparked an international furor last week with comments about intelligence levels among blacks, has retired from his post at a prestigious research institution.
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New Zealand scientist Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, hailed as an unsung hero of DNA research, has died in London.
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The decision by the five-member Nobel Committee to award this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to an environmental activist prompted some prominent Norwegians to criticize the selection