Dutch physicists win 1959 Nobel in physics
Gerardus ’t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman win the physics prize for theories clarifying the quantum structure of electroweak interactions and providing precise calculations for predicting particle behavior. The Royal Swedish Academy notes their framework fixes calculations and aids discovery, with mentions of the Higgs and top quark contexts.
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Tockholm
Sweden
Gerardus 'T Hooft
Matthius J.G. Veltman
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Europe
United States
Academy
Veltman
T Hooft
Lars Brink
Chalmers University of Technology Institute
Fermilab
Bilthoven
University of Michigan
University of Utrecht
Utrecht
Walter Kohn
University of California-Santa Barbara
John Pople
Northwestern University
Kohn
Austria
Pople
Golan Heights residents fear peace talks will halt settlements
Settlers worry over a possible return of the Golan Heights as Israel presses peace talks with Syria. Amid clearances for 2600 West Bank apartments, Golan residents highlight their dependence on the region for water and beauty, while polls show division over retaining the heights.
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Aaleh Gamla
Golan Heights
Golan
Shai Ben-Hagai
Israel
Syria
Ehud Barak
Yuval Steinitz
Likud
Sukkot
Sea of Galilee
Barak
Third Way Party
West Bank
Yasser Abed Rabbo
Gaza Star
HIV Rates Surge in Western Pacific, WHO Warns
About 1 million people in the Western Pacific are infected with HIV and the rate is rising fast, WHO officials say. They estimate 700,000 infections last year and 40,000 AIDS cases, warning infections could exceed 1.5 million by 2000 if unchecked.
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Western Pacific
Manilappines
World Health Organization
Laat
WHO
Shigeru Omi
Omi
Sarajevo Welcomes World’s Six Billionth Baby
In Sarajevo a boy born at 2 minutes past midnight is named by U N Secretary General Kofi Annan as the symbolic Six Billionth Baby. Fatima Nevic says she is happy whether or not the child is officially the six billionth, as U N demographers mark the population milestone. The birth highlights global challenges ahead for the next millennium amid war and poverty.
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Arajevo
Hosnia- Herzegovina
U.N
Kofi Annan
Nevic
Jasminko
UN worker killed by Kosovo Albanians in Pristina
A Bulgarian UN staffer, Valentin S. Krumov, 58, was shot Monday evening in Pristina as locals attacked him after he spoke Serbian. The killing, blamed on a mob, marked the first UN staff death since Kosovo governance began last June and came two days before Kofi Annan’s planned visit. Bernard Kouchner condemned the assault as an innocent aid worker’s murder.
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Ristina
Yugoslavia
U.N
Kosove
Inter
Valentin S. Krumov
Tina
Annay Tees
Cal Danley
APM
Keep
Kapotsev
Krumov
United Nations
Kosovo
Kofi Annan
Bernard Kouchir
Kosovac
Poe Orces
NATO
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World Digest
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South Africa
CGU Insurance Ltd
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Russia
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Russian Defense Ministry
Pakistan
Islamabad
Nawaz Sharif
Pervaiz Musharraf
Sri Lanka
Sharif
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Soria Fés Vicitors
Visoko
Annan
Sarajevo
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Mr. Annan
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