Nobel Laureate Óscar Arias at AAAS

Nobel Laureate Óscar Arias: “Peace, Development and the Environment are Universal Concerns”

Óscar Arias

War and military spending are draining resources from global efforts to fight poverty and restore the environment, former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Óscar Arias Sánchez said 7 September at AAAS. He urged the United States and other industrialized [...]

Posted on September 27th, 2004 by Monica
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Gerard Piel Dies at Age 89

Former publisher of Scientific American Dies at Age 89

Gerard Piel

Gerard Piel, 89, a past president of AAAS and the publisher best remembered for infusing life into Scientific American, died of complications from a stroke on 5 September at Mount Sinai Hospital in Queens, NY.
Piel virtually invented modern science journalism. He believed that combining the highest [...]

Posted on September 8th, 2004 by Monica
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